El 16/08/17 a las 15:36, Robert Sharp escribió:
> On 16/08/17 11:09, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote:
>> El 16/08/17 a las 09:40, Marek Szuba escribió:
>>> Two tiny bits of formal nitpicking from my side:
>>>  - it's "grsecurity" (not a typo, they do use a lowercase g except when
>>> the name appears at the beginning of a sentence), not "grsec";
>>>  - the patches were not *distributed by* grsecurity, they *are*
>>> grsecurity. The vendor's name is Open Source Security, Inc.
>> Nowadays it is, but this hasn't always been the case. You'll notice the
>> presence of a /dev/grsec and you'll also find grsec referenced accross
>> some old patches. Anyways I changed it.
>>
>> The same applies to Open Source Security, Inc. the company was founded
>> on 2008 but grsecurity has been around for much longer. That's why I
>> prefer to refer to Brad Spengler and The PaX team here as they are still
>> the real upstream behind Open Source Security, Inc.
>>
>>
> Would anyone like to outline a simple process to migrate from
> hardened-sources + hardened tool-chain to gentoo-sources?
>
Unless you want to drop userspace hardening (which most likely you don't
as it is still useful on vanilla kernels) a simple copy of the .config
file to gentoo sources followed by make oldconfig will work in the vast
majority of cases.

> Presumably if I just drag my config file across it will cause all
> sorts of problems?
>
Nah, not really, as long as you do oldconfig you should be fine. Most of
the config changes were compatimentalized under the grsecurity section.

> Do I need to work backwards through the hardening guide, for example?
>
Definitively not :)

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