Re: [gentoo-dev] News item for eudev deprecation

2021-08-24 Thread Anthony G. Basile
predictable behavior. Open bugs with the sys-fs/udev maintainers and mark it critical if it is damaging filesystems. > > On 2021/08/22 22:14, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> Yes! It is time to finally deprecate eudev! sys-fs/udev now builds >> under

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item for eudev deprecation

2021-08-23 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 8/23/21 11:05 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 10:36 AM Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> >>>>>>> On Mon, 23 Aug 2021, Anthony G Basile wrote: >> >>>>> **WARNING** >>>>> >>>>> If you happen to have an I

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item for eudev deprecation

2021-08-23 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 8/22/21 5:00 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote: > On 8/22/2021 16:14, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> Yes! It is time to finally deprecate eudev! sys-fs/udev now builds >> under musl! My original purpose for maintaining eudev was because >> systemd + mus

[gentoo-dev] News item for eudev deprecation

2021-08-22 Thread Anthony G. Basile
, and it did save musl on gentoo, but there was a period there when it was taking up almost all of my time. If you don't know what you're getting into, you don't want to take on its maintenance. Title: eudev retirement on 2022-01-01 Author: Anthony G. Basile Posted: 2021-08-xx Revision: 1 News

Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item for uClibc-ng deprecation

2021-08-17 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 8/17/21 2:24 PM, Aaron Bauman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 01:27:45PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 7:40 AM Anthony G. Basile >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> Can I get feedback on the following news

Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item for uClibc-ng deprecation

2021-08-17 Thread Anthony G. Basile
event, yeah, I don't have a real issue with dropping it. I've > noticed that some of the more recent commits to it are really just ingesting > chunks of glibc and stripping out some of the macro fluff. There's actually > a change in upstream glibc I've yet to test on one of my non-coherent

[gentoo-dev] News Item for uClibc-ng deprecation

2021-08-17 Thread Anthony G. Basile
Hi everyone, Can I get feedback on the following news item? (BTW, thanks soap) Title: uClibc-ng retirement on 2023/01/01 Author: Anthony G. Basile Posted: 2021-08-15 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 2.0 Display-If-Profile: default/linux/uclibc/* uClibc-ng is mostly abandoned upstream, and since

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: dropping support for uclibc-ng

2021-01-05 Thread Anthony G. Basile
? If not, I can work towards deprecating it and putting what >>> little time I have towards musl. >>> Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. >>> Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] >> Are you the only Gentoo developer working on musl and uclibc-ng? I'm the only one working on

[gentoo-dev] RFC: dropping support for uclibc-ng

2021-01-04 Thread Anthony G. Basile
and which has now well supported in Gentoo. I know people want musl support, but does anyone even care about uclibc-ng? If not, I can work towards deprecating it and putting what little time I have towards musl. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Discontinuing LibreSSL support?

2020-12-30 Thread Anthony G. Basile
hing we want to saddle the rest of Gentoo with. Nor do we want to burden upstream teams to have to follow libressl's insanity. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Discontinuing LibreSSL support?

2020-12-30 Thread Anthony G. Basile
is best. But <- here's the "but" At some point a particular path may have to be dropped because it just doesn't provide any clear advantages. There was nothing wrong with adding libressl as an alternative in 2014 since it had promise. And now, years later, I see nothing wrong

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Discontinuing LibreSSL support?

2020-12-28 Thread Anthony G. Basile
it has become more of a hassle than its worth. I am in favor of removing it. If we decide to do so, how should we proceed? -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA

Re: [gentoo-dev] musl doesn't provide execinfo.h

2020-03-27 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 3/27/20 3:17 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Fri, 2020-03-27 at 08:03 -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> On 3/26/20 9:25 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote: >>> On 3/23/2020 04:21, Jaco Kroon wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/7

Re: [gentoo-dev] musl doesn't provide execinfo.h

2020-03-27 Thread Anthony G. Basile
ne packages to provide for features like fts, obstack, argp,etc. which are bundled into glibc but not really under the POSIX standard. So either we patch packages to turn off backtrace() or we add libunwind-standalone to the tree. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: request uid/gid for net-misc/stunnel

2019-12-08 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 12/8/19 2:59 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> On Sun, 08 Dec 2019, Anthony G Basile wrote: > >> Okay, I'm requesting UID/GID = 492/492. I'm committing in a sec. > > That's the ID used by arch for oprofile, so it's a bad choice. > > Ulrich >

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: request uid/gid for net-misc/stunnel

2019-12-08 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 12/8/19 2:53 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Sun, 2019-12-08 at 14:48 -0500, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I know that is my third time requesting a uid/gid for stunnel, but it >> seems that my previous request was already taken but not added to th

[gentoo-dev] RFC: request uid/gid for net-misc/stunnel

2019-12-08 Thread Anthony G. Basile
, and he'll assign the highest free value(s) at the time. So @mgorny, can i please have a UID and GID pair for stunnel. Thanks! -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC acct-{user,group} for net-dns/avahi, net-vpn/tor, net-misc/stunnel

2019-11-27 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 11/27/19 1:47 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, 27 Nov 2019, Anthony G Basile wrote: > > > I'd suggest UID and GID 43 for tor (following Archlinux). > > Ulrich > Thanks Ulrich. Works for me. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux De

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC acct-{user,group} for net-dns/avahi, net-vpn/tor, net-misc/stunnel

2019-11-27 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 11/27/19 11:52 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm requesting > > 1) uid/gid = 70/70 for net-dns/avahi > > 2) uid/gid = 997/995 for net-vpn/tor > > 3) uid/gid = 485/485 for net-misc/stunnel > > Both avahi and tor follow fedora. The valu

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC acct-{user,group} for net-dns/avahi, net-vpn/tor, net-misc/stunnel

2019-11-27 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 11/27/19 1:04 PM, Joonas Niilola wrote: > Hey, > > > On 11/27/19 6:52 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> 3) uid/gid = 485/485 for net-misc/stunnel >> >> Both avahi and tor follow fedora. The values for stunnel were the >> highest available values be

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC acct-{user,group} for net-dns/avahi, net-vpn/tor, net-misc/stunnel

2019-11-27 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 11/27/19 11:52 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > > 1) uid/gid = 70/70 for net-dns/avahi > Actually I need to expand this for avahi. I need a netdev group and avahi-autoipd user/group. So, in addition to the above, I'm also requesting netdev gid = 479 avahi-autoipd uid/gid

[gentoo-dev] RFC acct-{user,group} for net-dns/avahi, net-vpn/tor, net-misc/stunnel

2019-11-27 Thread Anthony G. Basile
Hi everyone, I'm requesting 1) uid/gid = 70/70 for net-dns/avahi 2) uid/gid = 997/995 for net-vpn/tor 3) uid/gid = 485/485 for net-misc/stunnel Both avahi and tor follow fedora. The values for stunnel were the highest available values below 500. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux

Re: [gentoo-dev] PSA: 13.0 profiles will be removed in a week

2019-06-21 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 6/21/19 2:54 AM, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 15:29:33 -0400 > "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: > >> On 6/19/19 3:19 AM, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: >>> >>> This is now tracked as https://bugs.gentoo.org/688342. I hope to get >>&g

Re: [gentoo-dev] PSA: 13.0 profiles will be removed in a week

2019-06-19 Thread Anthony G. Basile
l) which I'm working to migrate to 17.0. I don't think that the removal of the 13.0 profiles will affect them, but I'd like to know. The reason this is taking so long is 1) mips is a ~arch profile so there's a lot of blockers and 2) my mips equipment is slow. --Tony -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 2 must die

2019-06-06 Thread Anthony G. Basile
xactly :) > > I'm fine with treecleaning it. > > lu > Lol! I still have some OldWorld Macs, but I'm okay with tree cleaning it. Didn't we have some "archive" for old ebuilds? Maybe we can move it there. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs from xmw@g.o

2018-11-25 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 11/25/18 5:04 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > net-misc/arpd This is an important package. I can take care of it. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 3/4] toolchain.eclass: Transition deps to x11-base/xorg-proto

2018-04-27 Thread Anthony G. Basile
x11-libs/libX11 > x11-libs/libXtst > - x11-proto/xproto > - x11-proto/xextproto > =x11-libs/gtk+-2* > virtual/pkgconfig > " > These patches should be fine. It looks like you just finished stabilizing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Regarding the State of PaX in the tree

2018-04-16 Thread Anthony G. Basile
we should strive for "hardened-by-default". > You're forgetting selinux. Most of Zorry's work has made it into gcc and is now being enabled by our default toolchain. Some kernel features have also been improved upstream. With upstream carrying a lot of the work we did, I think 'hard

Re: [gentoo-dev] Regarding the State of PaX in the tree

2018-04-16 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 4/16/18 3:22 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, Michał Górny wrote: > >> W dniu nie, 15.04.2018 o godzinie 20∶04 -0400, użytkownik >> Anthony G. Basile napisał: >>> The question then is, do we remove all this code? As thing stands

Re: [gentoo-dev] Regarding the State of PaX in the tree

2018-04-16 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 4/16/18 4:05 AM, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > * Anthony G. Basile schrieb am 16.04.18 um 02:04 Uhr: >> Hi everyone, > > Hi Anthony, > > I vote for keeping PaX Support as I am still using it and might be doing > so in the future. > > Thanks ;) > -Marc > Ho

[gentoo-dev] Regarding the State of PaX in the tree

2018-04-15 Thread Anthony G. Basile
. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-mips] Monthly mips@ project status for April 2018

2018-04-02 Thread Anthony G. Basile
system (quad-core 1.35GHz, 16GB RAM, >>> AMD graphics) which is significantly faster and more stable than any >>> other mips system I have. >> >> Big or little endian? If little, > > Helps to finish my sentences. Except I don't remember where I was going t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Its time to mask sys-libs/uclibc

2018-02-23 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 2/23/18 11:22 AM, Matthias Maier wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018, at 10:01 CST, "Anthony G. Basile" <bluen...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > >> [...] > >> I'm not even sure a news item is needed here. What do people think? If >> you think so, who d

[gentoo-dev] Its time to mask sys-libs/uclibc

2018-02-23 Thread Anthony G. Basile
? If you think so, who do I even direct it at? -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 7 in Portage needs YOU!

2018-02-19 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 2/19/18 5:49 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > 1. Runtime-switchable USE flags, I need to understand this. Where are the specs? -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cleaning up the uclibc and musl profiles

2018-01-22 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 1/20/18 2:35 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > I'm working on a multi-step plan to clean up the uclibc and musl > profiles to make repoman (and arch testers) happy. It will take a while > because I have to make sure I don't seriously break things for people > using them. As a first s

[gentoo-dev] Cleaning up the uclibc and musl profiles

2018-01-20 Thread Anthony G. Basile
found at `profiles/uclibc'. They have been unused for years. I have a PR on github if anyone wants to review: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/6918 I'll commit it after feedback. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Managing updates on many identical Gentoo systems

2018-01-20 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 1/19/18 10:03 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 1/19/18 9:45 AM, Alec Warner wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 5:13 PM, Bill Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> wrote: >> >>> On 18/01/18 23:36, Duncan wrote: >>>> Anthony G. Basile posted on Th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Managing updates on many identical Gentoo systems

2018-01-19 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 1/19/18 9:45 AM, Alec Warner wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 5:13 PM, Bill Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > >> On 18/01/18 23:36, Duncan wrote: >>> Anthony G. Basile posted on Thu, 18 Jan 2018 06:46:53 -0500 as excerpted: >>> >>>>

[gentoo-dev] Managing updates on many identical Gentoo systems

2018-01-18 Thread Anthony G. Basile
a tidy /var/db/pkg. Thus they avoid having to house the portage tree and burning cpu cycles that just calculate redundant information. I'm inspired here by OpenBSD's pkg_add which doesn't require all of ports to be installed, and mender which is a Any ideas? -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3] profiles.desc: Lower some profiles with broken depgraph from dev to exp

2018-01-11 Thread Anthony G. Basile
ir bit of work, so I'll ask for some patience. [1] https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/gentoo-ci/output.html -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2] profiles.desc: Lower profiles with broken depgraph from dev to exp

2018-01-11 Thread Anthony G. Basile
efault/linux/uclibc/mips/mipselexp > +mips hardened/linux/uclibc/mips/mipsel exp > +ppc default/linux/uclibc/ppcexp > +ppc hardened/linux/uclibc/ppc exp > +x86

Re: [gentoo-dev] Patches to update toolchain.eclass to EAPI=5

2017-12-30 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 12/30/17 12:18 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Samstag, 30. Dezember 2017, 13:22:52 CET schrieb Anthony G. Basile: >> Hi everyone, >> >> We've been stuck on EAPI=4 with toolchain.eclass for a while. This is >> causing problems with subslotting libraries

Re: [gentoo-dev] Patches to update toolchain.eclass to EAPI=5

2017-12-30 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 12/30/17 9:13 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 12/30/17 9:08 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On 12/30/2017 07:22 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >>> use_if_iuse !nopie && return 0 >> >> Does this work? The "use" function supports negation (undocume

Re: [gentoo-dev] Patches to update toolchain.eclass to EAPI=5

2017-12-30 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 12/30/17 9:08 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 12/30/2017 07:22 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> use_if_iuse !nopie && return 0 > > Does this work? The "use" function supports negation (undocumented, but > it's in the PMS), but I don't think use_if_iu

[gentoo-dev] Patches to update toolchain.eclass to EAPI=5

2017-12-30 Thread Anthony G. Basile
the board (ie all dependent ebuilds) for amd64. Everything looks good, so please review and I'll commit if we're okay. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects up for grabs: cron, m68k

2017-12-21 Thread Anthony G. Basile
; keep it, i'll look after it. If it has some big architectural issues > later then we can last-rite it but its been reliable so far. > > I added myself to the Cron project with blueness. > > -- Jason > > Jason, much appreciated. Also thanks Michal for noticing that cron nee

[gentoo-dev] Package up for grab

2017-12-20 Thread Anthony G. Basile
Hi everyone, I was maintaining the following package net-p2p/tribler but I just dropped it to maintainer-needed. Someone asked me for it, but it needs work on bumping and its not that interesting/important to me. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects up for grabs: cron, m68k

2017-12-20 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 12/20/17 12:07 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 12/20/17 12:02 PM, Michał Górny wrote: >> Hello, everyone. >> >> Due to prolonged inactivity of Mike Frysinger (vapier), the following >> projects have had effectively no members for 6 months already: >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects up for grabs: cron, m68k

2017-12-20 Thread Anthony G. Basile
project and/or co-maintaining the > individual packages. > > If the projects see no activity within the next month, I will disband > them and move the appropriate packages to maintainer-needed. > Those are very important packages. I use fcron and at and I can help take care of those

Re: [gentoo-dev] Patch for toolchain.eclass for uclibc-ng

2017-11-26 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 11/26/17 10:50 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Samstag, 25. November 2017, 15:01:20 CET schrieb Anthony G. Basile: >> Hi everyone, >> >> With the stabilization of gcc-6.4.0, the uclibc build broke because the >> eclass requires UCLIBC_VER to be define on uclibc

[gentoo-dev] Patch for toolchain.eclass for uclibc-ng

2017-11-25 Thread Anthony G. Basile
is not found. Note that there are some musl specific patches which I would like to migrate out of the overlay and into the tree. In a future patch, I'd like to duplicate the uclibc code for musl in toolchain.eclass. Feedback welcome. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E

[gentoo-dev] Patch for toolchain.eclass for uclibc-ng

2017-11-25 Thread Anthony G. Basile
-- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA From 909298f47c98f698923c834f67e53bed3bc6ab25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Anthony G. Basile" <bluen.

Re: [gentoo-dev] PowerPC Resources at OSU

2017-09-12 Thread Anthony G. Basile
r Red Hat and provides our icedtea > ebuilds. Unfortunately I've only seen you on this list but hopefully > someone can vouch for you. I don't know whether these guests will be > suitable for your needs though. > I've been using timberdoodle, but not bogsucker. I haven't been following this thread, but

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Update toolchain.eclass to deal with .xz compressed tarball for gcc-6.4.0

2017-08-02 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 8/2/17 5:00 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Anthony G. Basile <bluen...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> Upstream gnu.org used to provide .gz and .bz2 compressed tarballs for >> gcc's source code. With gcc-6.4.0 however, they

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Update toolchain.eclass to deal with .xz compressed tarball for gcc-6.4.0

2017-08-02 Thread Anthony G. Basile
autodetect whether upstream has .bz2 or .xz but I'm not sure how to proceed with that. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA diff --git a/eclass/toolchain.eclass b

Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of grsecurity upstream and hardened-sources downstream

2017-06-24 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 6/24/17 6:04 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 12:28:27 -0400 > "Anthony G. Basile" <bluen...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> Hardened Gentoo has two sides to it, kernel hardening (done via >> hardened-sources) and toolchain/executable ha

[gentoo-dev] The status of grsecurity upstream and hardened-sources downstream

2017-06-23 Thread Anthony G. Basile
and then send out a news item and later mask hardened-sources for removal. I don't recommend we remove any of the machinery from Gentoo that deals with PaX markings. I welcome feedback. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9

Re: [gentoo-dev] Hardening a default profile

2017-06-15 Thread Anthony G. Basile
86_64-pc-linux-gnu-5.4.0-vanilla while on the default profiles it gives: [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-5.4.0 * [5] on the hardened profile is equivalent to [1] on the vanilla. maybe we should consider merging the hardened and default profiles? -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [

[gentoo-dev] Update to news item 2014-10-26-gcc_4_7_introduced_new_c++11_abi/2014-10-26-gcc_4_7_introduced_new_c++11_abi.en.txt

2017-06-04 Thread Anthony G. Basile
-gcc_4_7_introduced_new_c++11_abi/2014-10-26-gcc_4_7_introduced_new_c++11_abi.en.txt @@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ Title: GCC 4.7 Introduced the New C++11 ABI Author: Anthony G. Basile <bluen...@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2014-10-26 -Revision: 1 +Revision: 2 News-Item-Format: 1.0 -Display-If-Ins

[gentoo-dev] Items for Council Agenda, June 11

2017-05-31 Thread Anthony G. Basile
Hi everyone, The Gentoo Council will be meeting in two weeks. If anyone has any issues we need to discuss, please let me know and I'll put it on the agenda. Thanks. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp

2017-05-14 Thread Anthony G. Basile
ormal complaint, powerpc team is alive, and I'm lead. > I defer to the ppc lead's decision on this. While I am okay with dekeywording everything *but* @system for ppc, I prefer keeping ppc keywords. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp

2017-05-11 Thread Anthony G. Basile
t jumped in because I wanted to make sure we didn't break the catalyst runs for stage3's and he came up with the dekeywording solution which I like. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp

2017-05-10 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 5/10/17 3:29 PM, David Seifert wrote: > On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 22:24 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote: >> Ühel kenal päeval, K, 10.05.2017 kell 15:01, kirjutas Anthony G. >> Basile: >>> On 5/10/17 11:08 AM, William Hubbs wrote: >>>> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp

2017-05-10 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 5/10/17 11:08 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:04:54AM +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: >> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Anthony G. Basile <bluen...@gentoo.org> >> wrote: >>> I maintain quite a few ppc stage3's for uclibc and musl. I wo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp

2017-05-09 Thread Anthony G. Basile
, I can't remove the ancient and vulnerable nagios-3.5.1 > because an alternative is missing keywords: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605724 > > If I drop nagios-3.5.1 without the keywords, pnp4nagios breaks. > > Perhaps I'm missing the issue, but can you just follow

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp

2017-05-09 Thread Anthony G. Basile
fail > with a build error. However, the last working stage3 image won't go away > until it was replaced by a newer working one... > I maintain quite a few ppc stage3's for uclibc and musl. I would appreciate keeping ppc as is. It is still a useful arch for many devices today, eg.

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] file_copy: replace loff_t with off_t for portability (bug 617778)

2017-05-08 Thread Anthony G. Basile
func_ret; > struct stat stat_in, stat_out; > char* buf; > -ssize_t (*copyfunc)(int, int, loff_t *, size_t); > +ssize_t (*copyfunc)(int, int, off_t *, size_t); > > if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "ii", _in, _out)) > return NULL; This looks good to me. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2017-03-26 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 3/26/17 3:50 PM, aide...@gentoo.org wrote: > app-crypt/md5deep I'll take this. I use it in hashing stage3's and tar'ed systems I push out. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 F

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Update bitcoin eclass to default to knots

2017-03-11 Thread Anthony G. Basile
nts to co-maintain it with me, I'd welcome the help. I'm busy until summer at which time I revisit the issue and try to clean up the eclass and ebuilds. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Update bitcoin eclass to default to knots

2017-03-08 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 3/7/17 12:18 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> I proxy maintain bitcoins for luke-jr. He wants to propose a patch >> against the bitcoin eclass. The following is his proposed change. >> I'll commit it after review. > > Please do not do that, Ant

[gentoo-dev] RFC: Update bitcoin eclass to default to knots

2017-03-06 Thread Anthony G. Basile
eploying this change to the main Portage tree. Please CC me on any replies, as I am not presently subscribed to the mailing list. Thanks, Luke -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bas...@freeharbor.net GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item for uclibc-ng

2017-02-08 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 2/8/17 3:23 PM, Andrey Utkin wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 02:37:52PM -0500, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> Attached you'll find a news item for uclibc-ng. I'd like to push it out >> in a few days. >> > >> This will make sure all e

[gentoo-dev] News item for uclibc-ng

2017-02-08 Thread Anthony G. Basile
Hi everyone, Attached you'll find a news item for uclibc-ng. I'd like to push it out in a few days. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA Title: Upgrade

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unused profiles

2017-01-22 Thread Anthony G. Basile
't know what you mean by "inlining" them but I'd rather not mix them in. I'd rather they were just removed or whoever is using them take care of them. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bas...@freeharbor.net GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unused profiles

2017-01-22 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 1/19/17 8:25 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > Michal, I had a chance to look over this carefully and here's what I got: >> default/linux/mips/13.0/desktop >> default/linux/mips/13.0/developer >> default/linux/mips/13.0/mipsel/desktop >> default/linux/mips/13.0/mipsel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unused profiles

2017-01-19 Thread Anthony G. Basile
some people still using these older profiles, else I'd say kill all of profiles/uclibc. Also, we should just drop a deprecated file into these profiles for now and wait a year before removing them from the tree. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: global USE c++11

2017-01-03 Thread Anthony G. Basile
ried to find some example usages from upstream. Two things I found > > * Most upstreams dropped the flag in recent versions > * If present, it is used to append -std=c++11 > > Probably we should keep it local and wait until it is gone everywhere > upstream. > > Justin > Agre

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: global USE c++11

2017-01-02 Thread Anthony G. Basile
asking for trouble. Since I'm not sure why the flag is there in those pkgs, I feel uneasy about making it a global flag. See https://blogs.gentoo.org/blueness/2015/03/10/the-c11-abi-incompatibility-problem-in-gentoo/ -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes in toolchain.eclass to enable Ada

2016-12-22 Thread Anthony G. Basile
ns of GCC (also possibly > missing patches). > > If the Ada compiler requires Ada to boostrap anyway, can't you just > make it build the Ada compiler alone? > Yeah, I agree. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA

Re: [gentoo-dev] For review: News item "Deprecation of sys-libs/uclibc and migration to sys-libs/uclibc-ng"

2016-09-24 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 9/24/16 1:34 PM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 10:42:27AM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'd like to commit the following news item in a couple of days. >> I'm sending it as an attachment so hopefully it'll come across

Re: [gentoo-dev] For review: News item "Deprecation of sys-libs/uclibc and migration to sys-libs/uclibc-ng"

2016-09-24 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 9/24/16 11:45 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Anthony G. Basile <bluen...@gentoo.org> > wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'd like to commit the following news item in a couple of days. I'm >> sending it as an attachment so hope

[gentoo-dev] For review: News item "Deprecation of sys-libs/uclibc and migration to sys-libs/uclibc-ng"

2016-09-24 Thread Anthony G. Basile
Hi everyone, I'd like to commit the following news item in a couple of days. I'm sending it as an attachment so hopefully it'll come across exactly as I will commit it. Please review. Thanks. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG

[gentoo-portage-dev] Resending patchset for C module to help check locale

2016-09-14 Thread Anthony G. Basile
As per Brian's request on IRC, here's the patchset for adding a C module to help check locales. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. Chair of Information Technology D'Youville College Buffalo, NY 14201 (716) 829-8197 From 76131d44e1731c876840e7925ccff2468ea157a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Anth

Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care

2016-08-23 Thread Anthony G. Basile
s I build. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA

Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care

2016-08-23 Thread Anthony G. Basile
sis is not mainstream, but I can start giving some of those packages love. I'm spread a bit thin, but I'm going to give away some of my less important packages. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Working Group established to evaluate the stable tree

2016-08-14 Thread Anthony G. Basile
ojects? Anyhow, Kristian, I'm in. Put me on the cc list. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrites: www-client/midori

2016-07-31 Thread Anthony G. Basile
umulated without any fix/attention. Removal > in a > # month if nobody comes with the fixes. > www-client/midori > I like midori. Let me take a look and see if its worthy the effort and get back to you. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen

[gentoo-dev] RFC: migration from uclibc to uclibc-ng

2016-07-16 Thread Anthony G. Basile
with instructions on how to upgrade. 4. Start pushing out uclibc-ng base stages https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/ for amd64 and i686. I'm at step 1 for amd64 and i686. I welcome comment on any of the above. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] masking and removing *coin packages

2016-07-08 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 7/8/16 10:42 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Anthony G. Basile <bluen...@gentoo.org> > wrote: >> >> Also there's some debate in IRC about whether or not these packages >> should be lastrited or dropped to maintainer-needed. These

Fwd: Re: [gentoo-dev] masking and removing *coin packages

2016-07-08 Thread Anthony G. Basile
take over nmon was not even approved it answered yet. I guess, I wasn't > following the right process. > > Thanks > Marc > > > > On Friday, 8 July 2016, Anthony G. Basile <bluen...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I emailed the list

[gentoo-dev] masking and removing *coin packages

2016-07-07 Thread Anthony G. Basile
net-p2p/bitcoinxt-qt net-p2p/litecoind net-p2p/litecoin-qt net-p2p/ppcoind net-p2p/ppcoin-qt net-p2p/primecoind net-p2p/primecoin-qt -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG

Re: [gentoo-dev] why is the security team running around p.masking packages

2016-07-06 Thread Anthony G. Basile
ate clear expectations for security and other developers. I don't think I need to add more to this since K_F appears to be working on something that will address this. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB

Re: [gentoo-dev] why is the security team running around p.masking packages

2016-07-06 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 7/6/16 7:30 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 07/06/2016 01:15 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> I'm also disappointed that no one else in the security team has >> recommended any internal policing in response to this. I maintain that >> forced p.masking and v

Re: [gentoo-dev] why is the security team running around p.masking packages

2016-07-06 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 7/6/16 7:23 AM, Aaron Bauman wrote: > On Wednesday, July 6, 2016 8:15:24 PM JST, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> On 7/6/16 6:54 AM, Aaron Bauman wrote: >>> On Wednesday, July 6, 2016 5:10:25 PM JST, Anthony G. Basile wrote: ... >> >> Except that I state such facts BEF

Re: [gentoo-dev] why is the security team running around p.masking packages

2016-07-06 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 7/6/16 6:54 AM, Aaron Bauman wrote: > On Wednesday, July 6, 2016 5:10:25 PM JST, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> On 7/5/16 10:52 PM, NP-Hardass wrote: >>> I think it is a little bit of a stretch to say that he's the only one to >>> have an issue. Now, I've spoken with

Re: [gentoo-dev] why is the security team running around p.masking packages

2016-07-06 Thread Anthony G. Basile
nd bump packages, its is essentially circumventing Gentoo governance. If it needs these powers, it should go through QA. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA

Re: [gentoo-dev] why is the security team running around p.masking packages

2016-07-06 Thread Anthony G. Basile
n. If the security team feels they must touch a package, I'd like to have QA review it. The QA leadership is ratified by the council and has a long history of dealing with these sorts of issues which are tried and true. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. Chair of Information Technology D'Youville College Buffalo, NY 14201 (716) 829-8197

Re: [gentoo-dev] why is the security team running around p.masking packages

2016-07-06 Thread Anthony G. Basile
nse, escalate the issue to QA who will review the problem and act. Are you okay with this change in procedure? -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. Chair of Information Technology D'Youville College Buffalo, NY 14201 (716) 829-8197

Re: [gentoo-dev] why is the security team running around p.masking packages

2016-07-05 Thread Anthony G. Basile
er to QA for review. By forced I mean without the cooperation of the maintainer. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. Chair of Information Technology D'Youville College Buffalo, NY 14201 (716) 829-8197

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