From: Momesso Andrea <momesso.andrea@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo server profile
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:10:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907231911.01414.momesso.andrea@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200907201833.58871.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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On Monday 20 July 2009 18:33:58 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 20 July 2009 17:49:00 Dirk Uys wrote:
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > I'm busy installing Gentoo on a local server. I'm using
> > "default/linux/amd64/2008.0/server" as the profile. I noticed that I
> > get a nice little warning every time I emerge a package saying
that
> > the profile is untested.
> >
> > My main concern for using the current server profile is to get a
> > minimal install, not security. Should I be using a different profile
> > (like hardened) or is the one I'm using fine?
> >
> > Regards
> > Dirk Uys
>
> Set I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING to anything other than "yes" in root's
profile
> and the error will go away. I don't believe the warnings are in any
way
> dangerous, to get a minimal install it will have removed USE flags
and not
> installed any services (as opposed to adding stuff the make things
> minimal). Issues can be fixed by enabling the USE flags you do
want.
Keep in mind that the server profile will try to pull in some USE that
you probably don't want in a minimal installation (such as mysql,
apache, etc.)
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2009-07-20 15:49 [gentoo-user] Gentoo server profile Dirk Uys
2009-07-20 16:33 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-07-23 17:10 ` Momesso Andrea [this message]
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