[hardening-discuss] hardening-wrapper - package description experimental?

Stefan Bauer stefan.bauer at cubewerk.de
Mon Mar 1 07:55:37 UTC 2010


Am 28.02.2010 21:09, Kees Cook schrieb:
> I will adjust the descriptions; qualifying this as "experimental" is no
> longer accurate; many packages in Debian are built using it (or the more
> modern "hardening-includes").

Hi Kees,

perfect! That should eliminate the doughts my uploader currently has.

> I also need to update the wiki page to describe how to use
> "hardening-includes" instead of "hardening-wrapper", as it tends to
> be a cleaner solution (i.e. the options aren't hidden when doing the
> build, "configure" and other internals can see the options, etc).
> 
> Though using hardening-wrapper is much easier, so it's a good place to
> start.

ipsec-tools with hardening enabled builds on all archs without
hazzle. That's good indeed.

Stefan

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