From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MzYSO-0004RV-I6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:18:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 88EECE0876; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:18:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail1.nippynetworks.com (mail.mailasail.com [212.227.250.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 585AAE0876 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:18:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mail1.nippynetworks.com [127.0.2.1]) by mail1.nippynetworks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2995CB51D16 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:18:05 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at nippynetworks.com Received: from mail1.nippynetworks.com ([127.0.2.1]) by localhost (mail1.nippynetworks.com [127.0.2.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Wc2bcq6V4LBc for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:18:05 +0100 (BST) Received: from ed-wildgooses-macbook-pro.local (office.nippynetworks.com [94.194.201.187]) (Authenticated sender: edward@wildgooses.com) by mail1.nippynetworks.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C99FBB51CBB for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:18:04 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4ADB3FBB.5070905@wildgooses.com> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:18:03 +0100 From: Ed W User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] gcc-4.3.4 stabilized for a hardened profile? References: <49bf44f10910180842t3d34efd5h20af2a937d75bb1c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10910180842t3d34efd5h20af2a937d75bb1c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 15e7d199-fbdf-4e41-b9b3-8b54e779feca X-Archives-Hash: c4c9d88142e86ff6d2c1c0ecfd612a41 Grant wrote: > I've been stuck on gcc-3.4.6 on my hardened profile system (currently: > hardened/linux/amd64/10.0) for a very long time. Now it looks like > gcc-4.3.4 has been stabilized for hardened profiles. Has anyone > tested it? This system is critical for me, so I've got to be careful. > > Probably not much help in this case, but +1 for just virtualising all new servers as soon as you get the hardware! I use linux-vserver which is super lightweight and makes testing upgrades of everything (except the host) a fairly straightforward job to just duplicate the vserver first (or at least shut it down and near instantly back it up) Not tested 4.3 myself so no real answer to your question though... Good luck Ed W