Bug 143115

Summary:	hardened-sources-2.6.17
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nicola <n.murino>
Component:	Hardened	Assignee:	The Gentoo Linux Hardened Team <hardened>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	johnm
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Nicola 2006-08-07 10:43:13 UTC

grsecurity was released for kernel-2.6.17.7 about a week ago

http://www.grsecurity.net/

why the current stable hardened-sources use 2.6.16 and a daily snapshot of grsecurity?

Comment 1 solar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-07 10:48:14 UTC

Your question is unclear if you are asking one.

Comment 2 Nicola 2006-08-07 11:39:41 UTC

I'm asking why the current stable hardened-sources doesn't use the official grsecurity release and a 2.6.17 kernel

grsecurity doesn't support 2.6.16:

http://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?t=1518

gentoo-sources-2.6.17-* is stable since a while, so my questions are:

-why hardened sources aren't bumped to the last kernel and the last official grsecuriy patch?
- why not test 2.6.17 and the new grsec and make it stable when ready?

Comment 3 solar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-07 12:06:35 UTC

simply answer is simply. cuz noone has gotten around to it yet.

Comment 4 Nicola 2006-08-07 12:15:58 UTC

ok then please bump,

thanks
Nicola

Comment 5 John Mylchreest (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-09-06 09:13:51 UTC

A bit of a belated reply but...

There is quite a lot of effort and care taken when we roll the 2.6 hardened-sources releases to ensure they are stable, of high quality and secure. I'd much prefer for our efforts to be spent getting the work done cleanly and professionally than releasing under-par into testing.