Closing week? No, starting week...
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Sun 16 March 2014I've been away for a while, and this week will (hopefully) be the last week of all the effort that is causing this. And that means I'll get back to blogging, documentation development, SELinux integration, SELinux policy development and more. To be honest, I'm eagerly awaiting this moment of getting …
Can Gentoo play a role in a RHEL-only environment?
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Thu 09 January 2014Sounds like a stupid question, as the answer is already in the title. If a company has only RedHat Enterprise Linux as allowed / supported Linux platform (be it for a support model requirement, ISV certification, management tooling support or what not) how could or would Gentoo still play a role …
Upgrading old Gentoo installations
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Sun 29 December 2013Today I got "pinged" on bug #463240 about the difficulty of upgrading a Gentoo Linux deployment after a long time of inactivity on the system. We already have an Upgrading Gentoo article on the Gentoo wiki that describes in great detail how upgrades can be accomplished. But one of the …
December hardened meeting
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Fri 20 December 2013Yesterday evening (UTC, that is) the members of the Gentoo Hardened project filled the #gentoo-hardened IRC channel again - it was time for another online follow-up meeting.
Toolchain
A few patches on the toolchain need to be created to mark SSP as default, but this is just a minor workload.
And …
GPT or MBR in the Gentoo Handbook
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Wed 18 December 2013I just committed a set of changes against the Gentoo Handbook (x86 and amd64) with the intent to have better instructions on GPT (GUID Partition Table) layout versus MBR (Master Boot Record) or MSDOS-style layout.
The part on "Preparing the Disks" saw the most changes. It starts with explaining the …
Gentoo SELinux policy release script
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Wed 11 December 2013A few months ago, I wrote a small script that aids in the creation of
new SELinux policy packages. The script is on the
repository
itself, in the gentoo/ subdirectory, and is called
release-prepare.sh.
The reason for the script is that there are a number of steps to perform …
November online hardened meeting
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Wed 11 December 2013Later than usual, as I wasn't able to make the meeting myself (thus had to wait for the meeting logs in order to draft up this summary), so here it is. The next meeting is scheduled for next week, btw ;-)
Toolchain
The 4.8.2 ebuild for GCC is available …
New SELinux userspace release
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Tue 05 November 2013Between now and an hour, Gentoo users using the \~arch branch will notice that new versions of the SELinux userspace applications are now available. Released on October 30th, they contain many bug fixes sent previously as well as a couple of interesting developments and enhancements (more work on sepolicy, for …
Gentoo Hardened meeting 201310
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Thu 24 October 2013We gathered online again to talk about the progress, changes and other stuff related to the Gentoo Hardened project.
New Developer
We welcomed Zero_Chaos as a new addition to our team. Big welcome, with the usual IRC kick in between, ensued.
Toolchain
GCC 4.8.x is unmasked and …
A bug please...
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Mon 30 September 2013I know contacting me (or other developers) through IRC is often fast, but having a bug report on our bugzilla is very important to me and other developers. Allow me to explain a bit why.
First of all, IRC is ephemeral. If we are not immediately on IRC noticing it …