walkerr Posted January 18, 2018 Report Share Posted January 18, 2018 First of all a thanks to the Funtoo team and community, I've sucefully managed to install this distro and I'm loving it. Second, I'm new to Funtoo and I have some doubts, if someone can answer I will be grateful. 1. If I find outdated packages how can I proceed ? Report as bug in JIRA? BTW: There are a few outdated packages that I've found for example linux-headers (was trying to install XEN) ,freeplane and apparmor and it's libs. 2. Does the hardened profile still works even without the GRSEC kernel? 3. How can I help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 palica Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 16 minutes ago, walkerr said: 1. If I find outdated packages how can I proceed ? Report as bug in JIRA? yes, that is the best way. but, you should also know that funtoo tries to keep the version bump race low. funtoo keeps good version of packages and backports only security updates, it a version bump makes sense from any other point than just bumping the version because we can, then it will be done. with kits there will be a 6 month release schedule 38 minutes ago, walkerr said: 2. Does the hardened profile still works even without the GRSEC kernel? yes, it works and I am also using it, it turns on some toolchain hardening. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened/Toolchain 42 minutes ago, walkerr said: 3. How can I help? testing, reporting stuff, if you want you can join the #funtoo-dev on freenode (irc) enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 walkerr Posted January 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 6 hours ago, palica said: yes, that is the best way. but, you should also know that funtoo tries to keep the version bump race low. funtoo keeps good version of packages and backports only security updates, it a version bump makes sense from any other point than just bumping the version because we can, then it will be done. with kits there will be a 6 month release schedule yes, it works and I am also using it, it turns on some toolchain hardening. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened/Toolchain testing, reporting stuff, if you want you can join the #funtoo-dev on freenode (irc) enjoy Last one for now, for maximum bleeding edge I should use the dev kits, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 palica Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 well, yes. but it has lots of rough edges, so be prepared. (gnome-3.26 kit is not ready for normal use). this is on my laptop ego kit list /var/git/meta-repo (updated 2 minutes ago): kit is active? branch stability core-kit 1.0-prime prime 1.1-prime deprecated active 1.2-prime alpha core-hw-kit active master prime security-kit 1.0-prime prime 1.1-prime deprecated active 1.2-prime alpha xorg-kit 1.17-prime prime active 1.19-prime prime gnome-kit active 3.20-prime prime 3.26-prime dev kde-kit active 5.10-prime prime media-kit 1.0-prime deprecated 1.1-prime prime active 1.2-prime dev perl-kit 5.24-prime prime active 5.26-prime dev python-kit 3.4-prime prime active 3.6-prime prime 3.6.3-prime deprecated php-kit active master prime java-kit 1.1-prime prime active 1.2-prime dev ruby-kit 1.1-prime prime active 1.2-prime dev haskell-kit 1.1-prime prime active 1.2-prime dev ml-lang-kit 1.1-prime prime active 1.2-prime dev lisp-scheme-kit 1.1-prime prime active 1.2-prime dev lang-kit 1.1-prime prime active 1.2-prime dev dev-kit 1.1-prime prime active 1.2-prime dev xfce-kit active 4.12-prime prime desktop-kit 1.1-prime prime active 1.2-prime dev editors-kit active master prime net-kit active master prime text-kit active master prime science-kit active master prime games-kit active master prime nokit active master prime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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First of all a thanks to the Funtoo team and community, I've sucefully managed to install this distro and I'm loving it.
Second, I'm new to Funtoo and I have some doubts, if someone can answer I will be grateful.
1. If I find outdated packages how can I proceed ? Report as bug in JIRA?
BTW: There are a few outdated packages that I've found for example linux-headers (was trying to install XEN) ,freeplane and apparmor and it's libs.
2. Does the hardened profile still works even without the GRSEC kernel?
3. How can I help?
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