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 1MU1tN-0001R4-Up for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:15:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25D34E0138; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:15:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.155]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBCE1E0138 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:15:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so311110fgg.14 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:15:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=8F+H1ip1h28OcjTofyBTSLOWvq9RjSCA+pnnTHgwQ/U=; b=Wu8yWpVvY4bUm7LdhFW9s5QRsn2KLllUf1p74JC8ZyxZQP9jlVxvyz2qT8rP9stUIK MOP1Um4m23YLCwrphisX/XrMC7Gk00W6P2lvmRh2Emya7lfu2jGfxPBfgnsskiqfD9Hw dqUJ7ew7LTGsnSbWa39xW6K36Z+jlg/x60I80= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=HP6z05GSG7EtDjnzlL9TrPAcdwLj/I8y55Qtc3izR1u8LBl+jSt/gl9TptTIFmKmv/ G0HTDfpuTNZEkMlF2M/qjfrUv93zyLcOXQssDRs2fhoJQV4OWGRMTmWvhmIlMe3n7gjL ersSEfdNS/R1Eii4nreJ1AoY9GLb85cLNpDzY= Received: by 10.86.66.20 with SMTP id o20mr2130328fga.15.1248369339313; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:15:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from revolver.localnet ([151.82.1.30]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l12sm20626784fgb.3.2009.07.23.10.15.36 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:15:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Momesso Andrea To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo server profile Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:10:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <79e3aefb0907200849k4919f66etde0e2fb5508e08e8@mail.gmail.com> <200907201833.58871.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200907201833.58871.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5676396.gBZqNmgyt0"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200907231911.01414.momesso.andrea@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 19355d03-4897-4ed7-aba5-1c56981bc310 X-Archives-Hash: 80cc8eb5887d412baf8e8e4b56608e73 --nextPart5676396.gBZqNmgyt0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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=20 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=20 profile > and the error will go away. I don't believe the warnings are in any=20 way > dangerous, to get a minimal install it will have removed USE flags=20 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=20 want. Keep in mind that the server profile will try to pull in some USE that=20 you probably don't want in a minimal installation (such as mysql,=20 apache, etc.) =2D-- TopperH --nextPart5676396.gBZqNmgyt0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkpomaUACgkQTusdC+HYtiKxBACdHWvzOzxz59Wnr46hCQv2JJLT qvgAoOUllnxV7INhTCxEkjYuH2VqnmCl =psCq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5676396.gBZqNmgyt0--