| Summary: | sys-kernel/hardened-sources-3.15.5-r1 with grsecurity-3.0-3.15.5-201407142248 should not be stable? | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | tomas charvat <tc> |
| Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Anthony Basile <blueness> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | hardened, kernel |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
tomas charvat
2014-07-21 14:57:28 UTC
(In reply to tomas charvat from comment #0) > I have notice today, that sys-kernel/hardened-sources-3.15.5-r1 has been > marked stable. Long discusion short: > Kernel 3.15.5 is marked stable by kernel.org - OK > Grsec grsecurity-3.0-3.15.5-201407142248 - for testing purpose > > Stable Kernel + Grsec for testing version shall not be marked as stable IMO. > Stable Kernel + Stable Grsec shall be marked as stable kernel. > > Its cool and useful to have latest stable kernel with latest grsec-test, but > IMO it shall not be considered stable. > > Since this can turn into long pointless discusion I'm suggesting this small > workaround. > If someone merge hardened-sources, w/o stable grsec, print warning... > "Latest stable Grsec is in hardened-sources-3.14.13-r1. %Kernel% you are > about to merge has Grsec test patch %version%." For as many people as would agree with you, there are as many who would disagree. I'm not entering ths arena. |
