On 11/07/2010 01:47 PM, Claes Gyllenswärd wrote: > 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?
Yeah I probably should have mentioned that you need to do profile-config list, notice whatever number corresponds to your profile and then profile-config set <num> -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. Chair of Information Technology D'Youville College Buffalo, NY 14201 (716) 829-8197
