2010/11/6 Anthony G. Basile <[email protected]>: > > Hi hardened users, > > You may have heard by now that hardened is thinking of changing its > profile structure. The current structure is crazy complex and there is > no need for it. Basically we're going to be removing the versioning in > our profiles so that instead of > > [8] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0 * > [9] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib > > you will simply get > > [8] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0 * > [9] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib > > to profile-config list. (It'll be similar on the other arches). Behind > the scenes, we are also deprecating the various "sub-profiles" which > aren't even included in the profiles.desc list, like amd64/10.0/desktop, > /server, /developer etc. > > This isn't happening soon, so don't panic! You will get a portage news > item when we're about to do the switch and we will proceed slowly. > > I'm emailing the list to sollicit help in testing, espeically on the > minor arches which are slatted to go first. If you'd like to help out, > here's how: > > 1. Record your current list from emerge -ep system and emerge -ep world > > 2. git clone git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/hardened-dev.git > > 3. cd hardened-dev > > 4. git branch profiles origin/profiles > > 5. git checkout profiles > > 6. mount --bind profiles/ /usr/portage/profiles > > 7. Record your emerge -ep system and emerge -ep world, and compare to > before. > > There should be no or only minor changes. > > Thanks. > > -- > Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. > Gentoo Developer > >
This made no difference at all on stable amd64, but I never actually switched profile, since the instructions don't mention that. Should I?
