On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 12:02:11AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > For those of us who use a BLFS-derived systems, it seems to me that > the 'Security' section of the book is deficient. Yes, we have > various packages to enhance security, but we never point out that > (unlike most distros) we don't have a security team. > [...]
Proof of concept now at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/tmp/blfs-security-and-distro-changes/ - specifically, some additions to chapter 2 introduction/beyond.html add '/linux' to google - it seems to cut down some of the noise add links and explanations for some distros - the gentoo part is a bit unsatisfactory, I can find plenty of lists of mirrors, but none of them seemed to have the ebuilds and patches, and the text is a bit iffy (but, who really needs to understand the full detail of an ebuild?) added a link to an rpm2cpio script (rpm2targz says it will use rpm2cpio if it is present) - this version works for almost all rpm-using distros, except SuSe (they compress with bzip2 or lzma) and additions at the start of chapter 4 (postlfs/security.html). I've tried not to disrupt what was already in the book, so I just added the security part into the introductory security comments. Comments welcome. I've not seen any signs that anyone else who can edit the book thinks this is worth doing, so maybe this isn't going to happen. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
