2010/11/8 Anthony G. Basile <[email protected]>: > On 11/07/2010 01:47 PM, Claes Gyllenswärd wrote: >> 2010/11/6 Anthony G. Basile <[email protected]>: >>> >>> Hi hardened users, >>> >>> You may have heard by now that hardened is thinking of changing its >>> profile structure. The current structure is crazy complex and there is >>> no need for it. Basically we're going to be removing the versioning in >>> our profiles so that instead of >>> >>> [8] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0 * >>> [9] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib >>> >>> you will simply get >>> >>> [8] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0 * >>> [9] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib >>> >>> to profile-config list. (It'll be similar on the other arches). Behind >>> the scenes, we are also deprecating the various "sub-profiles" which >>> aren't even included in the profiles.desc list, like amd64/10.0/desktop, >>> /server, /developer etc. >>> >>> This isn't happening soon, so don't panic! You will get a portage news >>> item when we're about to do the switch and we will proceed slowly. >>> >>> I'm emailing the list to sollicit help in testing, espeically on the >>> minor arches which are slatted to go first. If you'd like to help out, >>> here's how: >>> >>> 1. Record your current list from emerge -ep system and emerge -ep >>> world >>> >>> 2. git clone git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/hardened-dev.git >>> >>> 3. cd hardened-dev >>> >>> 4. git branch profiles origin/profiles >>> >>> 5. git checkout profiles >>> >>> 6. mount --bind profiles/ /usr/portage/profiles >>> >>> 7. Record your emerge -ep system and emerge -ep world, and compare to >>> before. >>> >>> There should be no or only minor changes. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> -- >>> Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. >>> Gentoo Developer >>> >>> >> >> This made no difference at all on stable amd64, but I never actually >> switched profile, since the instructions don't mention that. >> Should I? > > Yeah I probably should have mentioned that you need to do profile-config > list, notice whatever number corresponds to your profile and then > profile-config set <num> > > -- > Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. > Chair of Information Technology > D'Youville College > Buffalo, NY 14201 > (716) 829-8197 > >
Done that too. No difference in the package lists at all. vimdiff pointed out a single dot in portages output, but I assume that's of no concern.
