On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 16:54 -0800, Michael Carns wrote:
> I've been running a server in an amd64 hardened+selinux+multilib 
> configuration for quite a while now.  Initially I used a selinux profile 
> and just added USE="hardened pic pie ssp", etc to my make.conf.  
> However, when the issues related to gcc-4 appeared I decided I really 
> needed to switch to a true hardened profile since I didn't want to 
> emerge glibc-2.4 and gcc-4 by accident. 
> 
> I went looking for an appropriate amd64 profile, but I didn't find one.  
> I went ahead and created one by merging the selinux amd64 profile with 
> the hardened/multilib profile into my overlay in /usr/local/portage.  
> While this setup succeeds in masking off the undesired versions of gcc 
> and glibc, it forces me to manually keep the profile in sync with the 
> main portage tree.
> 
> Is there some reason that this profile combination doesn't exist in 
> /usr/portage?  Am I using an unsupported configuration and have just 
> been lucky for well over a year?  Is this arch combination missing a 
> maintainer?

The 2006.1 SELinux support requires glibc 2.4, and since the hardened
compiler is not ready, there is no SELinux+hardened gcc at this time.

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Chris PeBenito
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