Dustin C. Hatch <admiralnemo <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > Last time I researched a gentoo hardened environment, it > > called for the default of Python to still be series 2 of the > > software. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with > > a "Hardened Gentoo workstation" that was using python 3 > > exclusively? > The SELinux libraries for Python only exist for Python 2. Without them, > Portage will be unable to e.g. load policy and set file context. You can > have Python 3 installed, and it can be the default interpreter if > sys-apps/portage was built with USE=python2, but you cannot have *only* > Python 3. OK, this interesting. On one workstation, I have: sys-apps/portage <snip> Installed versions: 2.2.8-r1(16:34:43 03/10/14)(ipc -build -doc -epydoc -pypy2_0 -python2 -python3 -selinux -xattr LINGUAS="-ru" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 -pypy2_0 -python2_6 -python3_2 -python3_4") So you saying go into package.use and set python2 flag for portage resulting in something like this: [ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-2.2.8-r1 USE="(ipc) python2* -build -doc -epydoc (-pypy2_0) -python3 (-selinux) -xattr" LINGUAS="-ru" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 (-pypy2_0) -python2_6 -python3_2 (-python3_4)" 0 kB (note) I only use this as an example, I'm not upgrading this system to Hardened, just using it for clarification.) ??? James
