Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a Gentoo built with Address Sanitizer

2015-07-02 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/02/2015 03:12 PM, Hanno Böck wrote: Hi, Hi Hanno, this sounds great! .. For now I just wanted to announce that I'm working on this, so people who care can get in touch with me. I'll probably write a detailed blog post at some point.

[gentoo-dev] Creating a Gentoo built with Address Sanitizer

2015-07-02 Thread Hanno Böck
Hi, A quick intro for people who don't know address sanitizer (asan): It's a feature of gcc and clang adding bounds-checking to c (enabled with -fsanitize=address command line), which will cause applications to crash and throw an error if an invalid memory access happens. Very simple example: int

Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a Gentoo built with Address Sanitizer

2015-07-02 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 7/2/15 9:12 AM, Hanno Böck wrote: Hi, Such a system could also be interesting as a high security linux variant not vulnerable to common buffer overflows and other memory errors. It is slower, but that may be acceptable. (However it should be said that right now asan is incompatible with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Git Migration: launch plan schedule (2015/Aug/08-09)

2015-07-02 Thread Brian Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/02/2015 05:39 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: Hi all, The Git migration is moving forward, and I'd like to announce a tentative schedule for that end. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/Git_migration#Stat us 2015/08/08

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] New Project: MATE

2015-07-02 Thread NP-Hardass
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Greetings all, Looking for some feedback on creating a new project and herd for the MATE Desktop environment. The goal, like many other DE based projects, is to provide up to date packaging and as complete an offering of the DE's packages as

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New Project: MATE

2015-07-02 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 02-07-2015 a las 15:40 -0400, NP-Hardass escribió: Greetings all, Looking for some feedback on creating a new project and herd for the MATE Desktop environment. The goal, like many other DE based projects, is to provide up to date packaging and as complete an offering of the DE's

[gentoo-dev] Git Migration: launch plan schedule (2015/Aug/08-09)

2015-07-02 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Hi all, The Git migration is moving forward, and I'd like to announce a tentative schedule for that end. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/Git_migration#Status 2015/08/08 15:00 UTC - Freeze 2015/08/08 19:00 UTC - Git commits open for developers 2015/08/09 01:00 UTC - Rsync live

Re: [gentoo-dev] Git Migration: launch plan schedule (2015/Aug/08-09)

2015-07-02 Thread NP-Hardass
Three cheers! Glad to see it happening. Thank you to everyone who helped to make this happen. -- NP-Hardass On July 2, 2015 5:39:52 PM EDT, Robin H. Johnson robb...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi all, The Git migration is moving forward, and I'd like to announce a tentative schedule for that end.