Hi, Last week, I ordered a XEN-based VPS with some commercial party with a gentoo image. The image is (of course) created with the default profile for amd64 (default/linux/amd64/10.0).
I want to convert the host to hardened (hardened/linux/amd64/10.0
profile), but in the process I noticed all kinds of strange sandbox
errors, and eventually, portage seemed broken beyond repair.
Unfortunately I forgot to c/p the output to somewhere more persistent
than my brain. Among the changes triggered by the profile change, I
noticed a gcc downgrade (sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-r2 -> sys-devel/gcc-4.3.4),
but I'm not sure where the problems really started.
I started from scratch now (new image), have updated USE flags to my
liking, and am running 'emerge -uDavN world' now, without changing the
profile.
This means that I will have only the changes triggered by the profile
change later on. Are there particular issues that I need to take care
of? And how to deal with the gcc change? I remember that there was some
kind of 'vanilla to hardened' guide, but google is failing me (I did
find some forum threads)...
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Regards,
Tom
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