[gentoo-dev] Hardened is planning on restructuring its profiles
Hi everyone, The hardened team is planning to restructure its profiles so that there is no version. Thus on a amd64 system, [8] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0 [9] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib would appear as [8] hardened/linux/amd64 [9] hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib We're planning on starting with the minor arches and then moving onto x86 and amd64. Since this has the potential to impact all profiles (given the complex inheritance structure), we'd like any feedback or caveats before we proceed. Anthony G. Basile (blueness) and the hardened team -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Developer
Re: [gentoo-dev] Hardened is planning on restructuring its profiles
On Saturday 06 November 2010 16:37:41 Anthony G. Basile wrote: Hi everyone, The hardened team is planning to restructure its profiles so that there is no version. Thus on a amd64 system, [8] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0 [9] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib would appear as [8] hardened/linux/amd64 [9] hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib We're planning on starting with the minor arches and then moving onto x86 and amd64. Since this has the potential to impact all profiles (given the complex inheritance structure), we'd like any feedback or caveats before we proceed. Anthony G. Basile (blueness) and the hardened team News item please -- Theo Chatzimichos (tampakrap) Gentoo KDE/Qt, Planet, Overlays signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-dev] Hardened is planning on restructuring its profiles
On 6 Nov 2010, at 16:37, Anthony G. Basile bluen...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi everyone, The hardened team is planning to restructure its profiles so that there is no version. Thus on a amd64 system, [8] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0 [9] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib would appear as [8] hardened/linux/amd64 [9] hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib We're planning on starting with the minor arches and then moving onto x86 and amd64. Since this has the potential to impact all profiles (given the complex inheritance structure), we'd like any feedback or caveats before we proceed. Anthony G. Basile (blueness) and the hardened team -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Developer I'd like to know why you made this decision :) also, what will you do in the future if the need to make a change that breaks stuff shows up? Alex | wired | sent from my i4
Re: [gentoo-dev] Hardened is planning on restructuring its profiles
On 11/06/2010 10:46 AM, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: On Saturday 06 November 2010 16:37:41 Anthony G. Basile wrote: Hi everyone, The hardened team is planning to restructure its profiles so that there is no version. Thus on a amd64 system, [8] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0 [9] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib would appear as [8] hardened/linux/amd64 [9] hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib We're planning on starting with the minor arches and then moving onto x86 and amd64. Since this has the potential to impact all profiles (given the complex inheritance structure), we'd like any feedback or caveats before we proceed. Anthony G. Basile (blueness) and the hardened team News item please Yes, definitely. We didn't prepare a news item yet because we'd like to hear back from the community first. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Developer
Re: [gentoo-dev] Hardened is planning on restructuring its profiles
On 11/06/2010 11:45 AM, Alex Alexander wrote: On 6 Nov 2010, at 16:37, Anthony G. Basile bluen...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi everyone, The hardened team is planning to restructure its profiles so that there is no version. Thus on a amd64 system, [8] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0 [9] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib would appear as [8] hardened/linux/amd64 [9] hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib We're planning on starting with the minor arches and then moving onto x86 and amd64. Since this has the potential to impact all profiles (given the complex inheritance structure), we'd like any feedback or caveats before we proceed. Anthony G. Basile (blueness) and the hardened team -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Developer I'd like to know why you made this decision :) also, what will you do in the future if the need to make a change that breaks stuff shows up? Alex | wired | sent from my i4 The idea here is that if the version changes from 10.0 to 12.0 or whatever, then the user doesn't have to change profiles. They can just stay on (say) hardened/linux/amd64 and we'll make the profile change behind the scene by modifying a line like ../../../releases/10.0 to ../../../releases/12.0 -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Developer
