[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] New subproject: Hardened uClibc

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] New subproject: Hardened uClibc

[Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)]

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El 03/11/12 14:35, Anthony G. Basile escribió:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'd like to announce a new subproject of Hardened Gentoo: Hardened
> uClibc.  It is an effort to port both tool chain and kernel hardening
> to uClibc based systems for a variety of architectures, treating
> uClibc more as a drop in alternative to glibc, and not necessarily as
> "embedded". Embedded systems aim to produce kernels and user lands
> with tiny footprints, and so tend to use busybox as their "Swiss Army
> Knife" of common UNIX utilities. While not excluding this possibility,
> we aim at making most (all?) of Gentoo's packages both hardened and
> uClibc compatible.
>
> The subproject crosses three areas: hardened, embedded and releng. 
> For a while I was just manually building and tarballing chroots, but
> I'm migrating to proper stage3's built using catalyst.  The following
> table gives a brief summary of the current state of affairs:
>
> Arch          ABI(s)                             Medium
> amd64      Generic                           stage3 desktop
> arm           armv7a                           stage4
> mips          mips32r2 mipsel32r2      stage4
> x86           i686                                stage3
> ppc <in progress>
>
> These are available on the mirrors under
> ${MIRROR}/expiermental/${ARCH}/uclibc.
>
> uClibc has made it quite a ways in the last few years. For amd64, I
> built an entire desktop system based on XFCE4 which is also on the
> mirrors.  However, this is still work in progress and should be
> considered experimental. Eg. upgrading the desktop from glib-2.30.3 to
> glib-2.32.4-r1 breaks.  The stage3's are the closest to being stable.
>
> The project homepage is at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/uclibc/
Back then I already discussed how this project description leads to
confusion on users, and as such I opened bug 441014
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441014 I'm still waiting for
blueness answers on this since he was the one who asked me to open said
bug. Meanwhile missinformation keeps being spread out.


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