[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] profiles: update pie use-flag masks for sys-devel/gcc
Jonathan Callen posted on Thu, 11 May 2017 23:25:24 -0400 as excerpted: > In this case, you would add a line like: > > >=sys-devel/gcc-6.3.0 -pie > > to the /etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask file (creating the > file/parent directory as needed). If a flag is masked/forced for all > packages in use.{mask,force}, then you would add a line like "-foo" to > the use.{mask,force} file in /etc/portage/profile/. Thanks. As I said I doubt I'm the only one who will find this useful. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] profiles: update pie use-flag masks for sys-devel/gcc
On 05/11/2017 10:45 PM, Duncan wrote: > Matthias Maier posted on Thu, 11 May 2017 19:17:51 -0500 as excerpted: > >> In light of the recent discussion, I will restore the status quo for the >> pie use-flag: masked on non-hardened profiles, unmasked and forced on >> hardened profiles. >> >> The next step will be to switch the pie use-flag on default profiles >> from masked to unmasked/forced with a profile update. > > For those of us who already have a default-pie system and now that we do, > don't want to go back, what's the prescribed override? I've never felt > the need to override a masked flag like that, before. > > (I'm sure I could find the general documentation and handle it myself, > but I'm equally sure that there's likely to be others in my situation by > now, and we shouldn't /all/ need to figure it out on our own.) > > (As some may remember, yes, I do have USE="-* ..." set, so didn't get pie > with the initial gcc6 emerge and @world rebuild, but I was persuaded by > the discussion here to try it, second global rebuild, and so far it > works. So both because it's supposed to be safer and because I don't > want to do now a /third/ global rebuild, I strongly prefer to keep it, > now that I have it, and no issues so far.) > In general, to override a package.use{,.stable}.{mask,force} entry in your profile, you add an entry to the same file in /etc/portage/profile/ that turns off the mask/force value in the profile. In this case, you would add a line like: >=sys-devel/gcc-6.3.0 -pie to the /etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask file (creating the file/parent directory as needed). If a flag is masked/forced for all packages in use.{mask,force}, then you would add a line like "-foo" to the use.{mask,force} file in /etc/portage/profile/. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] profiles: update pie use-flag masks for sys-devel/gcc
Matthias Maier posted on Thu, 11 May 2017 19:17:51 -0500 as excerpted: > In light of the recent discussion, I will restore the status quo for the > pie use-flag: masked on non-hardened profiles, unmasked and forced on > hardened profiles. > > The next step will be to switch the pie use-flag on default profiles > from masked to unmasked/forced with a profile update. For those of us who already have a default-pie system and now that we do, don't want to go back, what's the prescribed override? I've never felt the need to override a masked flag like that, before. (I'm sure I could find the general documentation and handle it myself, but I'm equally sure that there's likely to be others in my situation by now, and we shouldn't /all/ need to figure it out on our own.) (As some may remember, yes, I do have USE="-* ..." set, so didn't get pie with the initial gcc6 emerge and @world rebuild, but I was persuaded by the discussion here to try it, second global rebuild, and so far it works. So both because it's supposed to be safer and because I don't want to do now a /third/ global rebuild, I strongly prefer to keep it, now that I have it, and no issues so far.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman