On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Tom Hendrikx <tom@whyscream.net> wrote:
Clemente Aguiar schreef:
> I understand that the profiles where updated recently (last year?).
>
> Available profile symlink targets:
>   [1]   hardened/amd64 *
>   [2]   hardened/amd64/multilib
>   [3]   selinux/2007.0/amd64
>   [4]   selinux/2007.0/amd64/hardened
>   [5]   default/linux/amd64/2008.0
>   [6]   default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop
>   [7]   default/linux/amd64/2008.0/developer
>   [8]   default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib
>   [9]   default/linux/amd64/2008.0/server
>   [10]  hardened/linux/amd64
>
> Available profile symlink targets:
>   [1]   hardened/x86/2.6 *
>   [2]   selinux/2007.0/x86
>   [3]   selinux/2007.0/x86/hardened
>   [4]   default/linux/x86/2008.0
>   [5]   default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop
>   [6]   default/linux/x86/2008.0/developer
>   [7]   default/linux/x86/2008.0/server
>   [8]   hardened/linux/x86
>
>
> I would like to know what hardened profile I should use when I build new
> machines? (AMD64 as well as x86)
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>

A few days ago I switched an x86 machine from "default/linux/x86/2008.0"
to "hardened/linux/x86/2008.0/server" after some arbitrary rummaging in
the profiles directory. This gave me no problems other than the expected
gcc-4 -> gcc-3 downgrade.

I'm not sure why this profile isn't listed in the eselect profile
listing above. It doesn't give me a big fat "unsupported profile"
warning though...

Regards,
       Tom



This is a confusing situation.  I am currently using /usr/portage/profiles/hardened/linux/amd64/2008.0.

This is not explicitly listed in the output of 'eselect profile list'.

Perhaps we could sort this out on the list & then I will write a quick doc to place in the hardened web space to assist other users.

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M. Summers

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