Another plug...

On Friday 11 February 2005 03:28, stephen white wrote:
> On 11/02/2005, at 5:50 AM, Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote:
> glsa-check should over-ride my make.profile/packages configuration
> though? That's a minor detail though... the important thing is for me
> to be able to lock down my own stable packages, because I don't believe
> that using an external stable tree will provide help against deployment
> specific issues - hence QA is always the user's problem.
>
>
> What's a good lazy way of locking all the stable packages in my
> profile? I'm a bit worried about dumping 90,000 lines into
> make.profile/packages since I expect portage will slow down and choke
> (will have to try and see!). Let me know if there's any interest and
> I'll report back with the results and likely a document detailing how
> to use portage with this approach.
While considering the alternatives for GLEP 19, someone wrote a script to grap 
stable packages and lock them in a profile. We only locked top level packages 
so everything was not locked. But the way I would do it is to simply not sync 
the main Portage tree. Instead maintain a small security/bug fix/custom 
overlay.

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Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
Gentoo Linux Security Team

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