Gordon Malm wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 15, 2009 04:46:13 Tom Hendrikx wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As of today, portage notifies me that my current profile (hardened/x86)
>> is deprecated, and that "hardened/linux/x86/10.0" is the suggested
>> replacement.
>>
>> A few months ago, there was some traffic on this list regarding
>> profiles, resulting in the conclusion that "hardened/x86" was to be
>> preferred above the default as set (by releng?) in the hardened stages:
>> "hardened/linux/x86", as the latter was not approved or checked by the
>> hardened project.
>>
>> How does the new profile differ from hardened/x86, and is the new
>> profile tested/approved by the hardened project?
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Tom
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> You are correct, the hardened/linux/${arch} profiles were born by releng.
> Hardened project took them over some time ago however and have been
> maintaining both profile sets in parallel. The time has come to pair that
> down to a single set of profiles again; thus the older hardened/${arch}
> profiles have been deprecated.
>
> The hardened/linux/${arch}/10.0 profiles are tested/approved by the hardened
> team. Please file a bug if you run into problems.
>
> Gordon Malm (gengor)
>
Great, and thanks for the info, and the effort. Testing will commence today.
--
Regards,
Tom
