From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GO4lZ-0003bd-2n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:53:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8F3q1wR021875; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:52:01 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8F3q0MK031898 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:52:01 GMT Received: from [10.0.0.72] (unknown [207.215.1.194]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 166086413C for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:51:53 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Downgrading glibc From: Ned Ludd To: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:51:49 -0700 Message-Id: <1158292309.21234.37.camel@here.linbsd.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-hardened@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 79a5c351-971c-48d1-a528-d32d541d7b91 X-Archives-Hash: e1cba225cd59cf86cafcef10d3d30a03 On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 12:34 -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > I went through the gcc upgrade and discovered that ssp no longer works > (suppose it was documented somewhere - but I missed it) > > So I'm trying to reverse the upgrade process (this time using using a > hardened profile) and glibc won't allow me to downgrade. > > How do I get around this, please? > > I've considered hacking the script/size/md5 tests, but would prefer to do > it the proper way. There is no safe way to really downgrade glibc with portage. So.. Your choices are. 1) keep the glibc. 2) reinstall -- Ned Ludd Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-hardened@gentoo.org mailing list