Re: [gentoo-hardened] Grsecurity 2 in hardened-sources

[Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 16:12, Joshua Brindle wrote: 
> I'd rather you use SLOT's, this is what they are for.. 
> otherwise in a few months you are going to have a
> sys-apps/gradm2 and you won't be able to move it
> (you can but it's overly complicated).
> 
> you can just have gradm-1 in slot one that installs to
> /usr/sbin/gradm and gradm-2 in slot two that installs to
> /usr/sbin/gradm2 and they won't conflict, you could even
> give them different policy directories so that they don't
> collide. 

> You could then have both slots merged in next to each other
> and it wouldn't be an issue..

I dont see how this could/would prevent users that have ~arch keywords
from installing gradm-2 when using -sources other than hardened-sources.

Ok say we have ~arch in our keywords and we are using
gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r5(grsecurity 1.9.x) and we do emerge world
the next time we come back to this box it would end up having >=gradm-2
installed and we would not be able to enable/disable the acl system.

> the apache apache2 slot mess is really not SLOT'S fault, it's 
> something different altogether, we have plenty of apps that
> have been happily slotted for a very long time (db, gtk, et al)

SLOTS do not seem to properly address who is using what sources. Example
ever had a box running apache1 and had ~x86 in your keywords and did
'emerge world' portage will override your previous install of apache1
and force you to use apache2 [doh!]. This is my concern with gradm-1 &
gradm-2.

If you or anybody on this list knows of a way to make this behave
correctly with these settings then please by all meens submit your
ebuild for gradm-2.0_pre4 (or fix portage so it honors whats installed
already when using ~arch flags)

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Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Linux (Hardened)


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