On 2014-11-02 21:01, Bryan Drewery wrote: > Ports and Package users, > > Ports now have SSP enabled by default. The package repository will now build > SSP by default as well. SSP is "Stack Smashing Protection" and can be read > about at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow_protection. > > This only applies to the head (/latest) packages, not the Quarterly branch > packages. This applies to the ports checkout that portsnap uses. > > WITHOUT_SSP can be defined in make.conf to not use this feature. > > SSP will be used to build ports (with -fstack-protector) on all amd64 > releases and i386 releases which are 10.0 or newer. > > The "ssp" repository and "new_xorg" repositories will no longer be updated > after 11/15 as they are no longer needed as both are default for ports now. > Please update your repository configurations to now only track the /latest > repository. This is the default from /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf. Remove any > overrides from /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/ for the "ssp" or "new_xorg" > repositories. > > Regards, > Bryan Drewery on behalf of portmgr
Hi Bryan, thats good notes, but how about users tracking ssp and changing the repo or upgrading to 10.1 if released? I suspect packages will be replaced during 10.1 upgrade with NON_SSP packages since the tree was tagged already yesterday by babt. -- olli _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
