On 11/08/2010 02:22 AM, Claes Gyllenswärd wrote: > 2010/11/8 Anthony G. Basile <[email protected]>: >> 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 >> >> > > Done that too. No difference in the package lists at all. > vimdiff pointed out a single dot in portages output, but I assume > that's of no concern.
Thanks, this give me confidence that I haven't broken anything as far as amd64 goes. Any other arches. I have my own results but would like to hear others. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. Chair of Information Technology D'Youville College Buffalo, NY 14201 (716) 829-8197
