On Mon, 1 May 2017 09:38:43 +0000 Sven Vermeulen wrote: > Hi all, > > There is a nice debate ongoing on the mailinglist [1] on the topic of > grsecurity's recent decision to no longer provide the test patches to the > public. I'd like to keep the debate on the rationale of it in that > discussion, but focus here on what we, from Gentoo Hardened, now need to do > or which direction we're going to move forward with. > > [1] > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-hardened/message/a06145056b167f52c079bffd9c9a51ac > > The obvious step is indeed to stop further *current* development on > hardened-sources.
Why not support hardened-sources while corresponding vanilla kernels are still supported? E.g. 4.9 is a longterm branch, so we should be able to keep hardened-sources-4.9* up-to-date with vanilla bugfixes. This will give a nice transition period for hardened users. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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