Re: The state of grsecurity in gentoo

On 9/5/15 5:44 AM, Marc Schiffbauer wrote:
> * Anthony G. Basile schrieb am 02.09.15 um 18:13 Uhr:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> So by now most people have heard the news that the Grsecurity/PaX team
>> are no longer going to be making their stable patches available.  The
>> reason is that they are in dispute with a certain embedded systems
>> vendor and those negotiations broke down.  So they decided to make their
>> stable patches only available to the sponsors. [1]
>>
>> What does this mean for Gentoo?
> [...]
>
> Anthony,
>
> patches are available until 9th. Could you leave the latest 3.14
> version in tree? Or do you plan to unpublish them in the tree, too?
> Would spender or pipacs want or welcome that we do this?
>
> TIA
> -Marc
>

I'm not sure yet how I will deprecate but I think I have to.  Upstream 
thinks I'm too slow at deprecating already.  They push out daily patches 
and we want to stabilize after a month.  Try balance that out!

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Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D.
Chair of Information Technology
D'Youville College
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