Bug 573670 – hardened-sources: silence elog warning

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Toralf Förster 2016-02-02 13:46:09 UTC]

The warning should just appear if the package is not installed:

t44 hardened-sources # diff -b hardened-sources-4.3.5.ebuild /usr/portage/sys-kernel/hardened-sources/hardened-sources-4.3.5.ebuild
38,40d37
<       local myconf=$"(use_hasversion $GRADM_COMPAT)"
<       elog myconf="$myconf"
<       if [[ -z "$myconf" ]]; then
49d45
<       fi

[Comment 1 Anthony Basile 2016-02-12 00:59:08 UTC]

(In reply to Toralf Förster from comment #0)
> The warning should just appear if the package is not installed:
> 
> t44 hardened-sources # diff -b hardened-sources-4.3.5.ebuild
> /usr/portage/sys-kernel/hardened-sources/hardened-sources-4.3.5.ebuild
> 38,40d37
> <       local myconf=$"(use_hasversion $GRADM_COMPAT)"
> <       elog myconf="$myconf"
> <       if [[ -z "$myconf" ]]; then
> 49d45
> <       fi

No, because you might have kernels of different version of grsecurity installed.  Eg. for a while there were kernels for grsec version 3.0 and 3.1.  You would need the corresponding gradm for rbac to work.

The warning is for cases like that, so no, it should not be removed.