Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Modular X and hardened

2006-05-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote: > The current solution (bail if -z,now is set in the compiler specs) is > not one suggested by the hardened team, just need to make that clear, > and it's not something we would encourage elsewhere. However until we > can provide a solution for such a high-profile pac

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Modular X and hardened

2006-05-13 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
On Sat, 13 May 2006 13:10:22 -0700 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ned Ludd wrote: > > This was handled in the 6.8.x series and got dropped for unknown > > reasons when the modular X porting started happening. > > Unless your dead set on modular X I'd stick with the 6.8.x series. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular X and hardened

2006-05-13 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
On Sat, 13 May 2006 11:32:49 +0200 Simon Strandman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) skrev: > > On Fri, 12 May 2006 10:49:22 +0200 > > Simon Strandman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I installed modular X on my server running hardened. > > > > X on a server? If it's just fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86-portage on the rsync mirrors

2006-05-13 Thread Jeffrey Forman
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 16:42 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 13 May 2006 14:37, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > > I'm the admin of rsync5.de.gentoo.org. > > this really belongs on the gentoo-mirrors list i think ... Hey Mike, I had advised Tobias to ask on here because I was unsure of the s

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86-portage on the rsync mirrors

2006-05-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 13 May 2006 14:37, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > I'm the admin of rsync5.de.gentoo.org. this really belongs on the gentoo-mirrors list i think ... > Second, while there are some people who use the module, there are > so few that after all this time we should finally be able to get > rid o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Modular X and hardened

2006-05-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Ned Ludd wrote: > This was handled in the 6.8.x series and got dropped for unknown > reasons when the modular X porting started happening. > Unless your dead set on modular X I'd stick with the 6.8.x series. We are using the solution that was suggested to us by members of the hardened team. If yo

[gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86-portage on the rsync mirrors

2006-05-13 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! I'm the admin of rsync5.de.gentoo.org. For quite a while now (over a year, maybe even two or more), the gentoo-x86-portage rsync module has been deemed deprecated. Yet still the manual for setting up an rsync server says that it should be configured. I see about 1700 connections on my serve

[gentoo-dev] last rites for sys-devel/gecc

2006-05-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
i'll prob cut this in a day or two ... this package hasnt been touched upstream in over three years, it's just a proof of concept (author suggests you use ccache if you want a stable product), it has no maintainer (it was dumped into base-system a long time ago and no one noticed) also, the bui

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Modular X and hardened

2006-05-13 Thread Ned Ludd
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 12:03 +, Duncan wrote: > "Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, > 12 May 2006 12:51:57 +0200: > > > We (hardened) haven't had the time to investigate further, and we don't > > want to complicate the stabilisatio

[gentoo-dev] Council meeting logs for 2006-05-11

2006-05-13 Thread Sven Vermeulen
The meeting logs and summary for today's meeting have been committed to the Council Project page (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council) and are readily available. Summary: """ In today's meeting, the QA-team GLEP (48) was brought into the field. The GLEP discusses the role of the QA team and its

Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular X and hardened

2006-05-13 Thread Simon Strandman
Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) skrev: On Fri, 12 May 2006 10:49:22 +0200 Simon Strandman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I installed modular X on my server running hardened. X on a server? If it's just for the libs that's ok, but running the X server itself is risky on a server as it's huge and