El 03/11/12 14:35, Anthony G. Basile escribió: > Hi everyone, > > I'd like to announce a new subproject of Hardened Gentoo: Hardened > uClibc. It is an effort to port both tool chain and kernel hardening > to uClibc based systems for a variety of architectures, treating > uClibc more as a drop in alternative to glibc, and not necessarily as > "embedded". Embedded systems aim to produce kernels and user lands > with tiny footprints, and so tend to use busybox as their "Swiss Army > Knife" of common UNIX utilities. While not excluding this possibility, > we aim at making most (all?) of Gentoo's packages both hardened and > uClibc compatible. > > The subproject crosses three areas: hardened, embedded and releng. > For a while I was just manually building and tarballing chroots, but > I'm migrating to proper stage3's built using catalyst. The following > table gives a brief summary of the current state of affairs: > > Arch ABI(s) Medium > amd64 Generic stage3 desktop > arm armv7a stage4 > mips mips32r2 mipsel32r2 stage4 > x86 i686 stage3 > ppc <in progress> > > These are available on the mirrors under > ${MIRROR}/expiermental/${ARCH}/uclibc. > > uClibc has made it quite a ways in the last few years. For amd64, I > built an entire desktop system based on XFCE4 which is also on the > mirrors. However, this is still work in progress and should be > considered experimental. Eg. upgrading the desktop from glib-2.30.3 to > glib-2.32.4-r1 breaks. The stage3's are the closest to being stable. > > The project homepage is at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/uclibc/ Back then I already discussed how this project description leads to confusion on users, and as such I opened bug 441014 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441014 I'm still waiting for blueness answers on this since he was the one who asked me to open said bug. Meanwhile missinformation keeps being spread out.
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