On 1/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Hendrikx</b> <<a href="mailto:tom@whyscream.net">tom@whyscream.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br><br>Nedim Cholich wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> This is my first email to the list and my first attempt at installing<br>> hardened Gentoo (I've been using Gentoo for 4 years now).<br><snip><br>><br> > I have a fresh install of Gentoo 2006.1 and I'm trying to convert it to<br>> hardened. I have followed instructions and changed the profile, added<br>> USE flags and when I try to recompile the toolchain it wants to <br>> downgrade the glibc, which is, of course, not allowed.<br><br>I ran into this problem also a while ago, and after some testing,<br>solving this problem actually is quite easy, considering your 4 years of<br>Gentoo experience and also considering it's a clean install. <br><br>1) Get yourself a nice 2006.0 install cd<br>2) Wipe your clean install, and start a new one using the 2006.0 cd.<br>3) Do a stage 1 install from this cd, setting your profile and flags<br>right from the beginning. <br><br>Since the initial 2006.0 environment contains an older glibc version<br>(glibc-2.3.6-r4 says my emerge history), there is no need to downgrade.<br>Just be sure not to remerge glibc before setting the hardened profile, <br>so you don't upgrade by accident.<br><br>Worked for me twice in last 3 months :)</blockquote><div><br>Ok. I found stage3 of 2006.0. Is there a problem with using the latest portage snapshot with this 2006.0 (and the hardened profile from it)? <br><br>Thanks.<br></div><br></div>