>> Going from non-hardened to hardened may run into some downgrading >> problems, however, in view of the above. For example, hardened devs >> still have not put gcc4 in stable (at least on x86, I don't know about >> amd64), so if you have gcc4 installed, you'll need to downgrade. Along >> the same lines some packages that will not compile unless you use gcc4 >> cannot be installed (lilypond for example). > > I suspect downgrading from non-hardened to hardened will be impossible; > > glibc-2.6.1 is stable on x86 at least, so in all probability almost all x86 > boxen will at least have that. > > But >=glibc-2.6 is hard masked on x86 so there is no commonality and no > version available where the glibc ebuild will even permit this required > downgrade. It would seem that a reinstall is the only possible way to do > this.
Do you think going from hardened to non-hardened is do-able? I'd like to do that with my laptop. Also, I've got this with my server: # eselect profile list Available profile symlink targets: [1] hardened/x86/2.6 * [2] selinux/2007.0/x86 [3] selinux/2007.0/x86/hardened [4] default/linux/x86/2008.0 [5] default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop [6] default/linux/x86/2008.0/developer [7] default/linux/x86/2008.0/server [8] hardened/linux/x86 Is there a difference between 1 and 8? I may switch to 8 since that seems like a more current one. - Grant
