Re: [gentoo-user] Hardened again

2017-07-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 19 Jul 2017 14:17:30 Rasmus Thomsen wrote: > I'm not quite sure if I understand the second part correctly, but I guess > you want to compile packages on your workstation for that smaller box? Yes. > In that case it doesn't matter which kernel your host uses, just make sure > to choo

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardened again

2017-07-19 Thread Rasmus Thomsen
Hello, I'm pretty certain that switching to the hardened profile won't cause any slot conflicts, it pretty much just enables some compiler flags ( PIE ( it's enabled in not-hardened profiles since 6.3.0 too iirc ) , stack hardening, fortify source, RELRO ) and hardening flags on a few packages

[gentoo-user] Hardened again

2017-07-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, The recent discussion of hardening Gentoo prompted me to have a go at hardening this workstation. I followed the wiki[1] but when I got to emerge -e world I got scores of slot conflicts, maybe hundreds. So I backed off and restored the original system. Now I'm tackling a smaller bo