Hardened profiles: Yes there's a difference, no you should not switch to
hardened/linux/${ARCH} at this time.
You can get skype working by downloading or building gcc 4.1.x and pointing
LD_LIBRARY_PATH at the shared object directory when starting skype. skype
won't be using hardened toolchain but since its closed source and you're
willing to switch the whole machine to non-hardened I figure you probably
don't mind. ;)
Example:
1. Download
http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/x86/sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2.tbz2
2. unpack the archive to ${HOME}/tinderbox-pkgs/sys-devel/gcc/
3. Run it:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${HOME}/tinderbox-pkgs/sys-devel/gcc/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/"
skype
If you only require VoIP capability and not skype specifically you might be
interested net-im/ekiga.
Gordon Malm (gengor)
On Wednesday, December 24, 2008 09:03:21 Grant wrote:
> > I've been able to do so; basically I switched over to the standard
> > profile, disabled selinux in the kernel, and re-emerged system for new
> > use flags. There were some other details but overall the process was
> > pretty painless, anyone ambitious enough to configure a hardened system
> > can probably handle the switch without much problem. Not that I'm
> > encouraging you to drop hardened (especially on a laptop that could be
> > exposed to random wifi networks ;-)
>
> Is there any difference between 1 and 8 here? Should I switch to 8?
>
> # eselect profile list
> Available profile symlink targets:
> [1] hardened/x86/2.6 *
> [2] selinux/2007.0/x86
> [3] selinux/2007.0/x86/hardened
> [4] default/linux/x86/2008.0
> [5] default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop
> [6] default/linux/x86/2008.0/developer
> [7] default/linux/x86/2008.0/server
> [8] hardened/linux/x86
>
> - Grant
>
> >> Can I switch my laptop's profile from a hardened one to a non-hardened
> >> one? I thought this was impossible without a complete reinstall but
> >> folks on the gentoo-user list seem to think it's not a problem.
> >>
> >> - Grant
