Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:13:02 +0200 From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-lists@klop.ws> To: "Ports FreeBSD" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, "Bryan Drewery" <bdrewery@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [CFT] SSP Package Repository available Message-ID: <op.xmdy30pikndu52@ronaldradial.radialsg.local> In-Reply-To: <53F6167D.2030303@FreeBSD.org> References: <523D79CD.2090302@FreeBSD.org> <53F4CE0E.8040106@FreeBSD.org> <op.xkxx31g5kndu52@ronaldradial.radialsg.local> <53F6167D.2030303@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 17:55:41 +0200, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 8/21/2014 6:56 AM, Ronald Klop wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 18:34:22 +0200, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> >> wrote: >> >>> On 9/21/2013 5:49 AM, Bryan Drewery wrote: >>>> Ports now support enabling Stack Protector [1] support on FreeBSD 10 >>>> i386 and amd64, and older releases on amd64 only currently. >>>> >>>> Support may be added for earlier i386 releases once all ports properly >>>> respect LDFLAGS. >>>> >>>> To enable, just add WITH_SSP=yes to your make.conf and rebuild all >>>> ports. >>>> >>>> The default SSP_CLFAGS is -fstack-protector, but -fstack-protector-all >>>> may optionally be set instead. >>>> >>>> Please help test this on your system. We would like to eventually >>>> enable >>>> this by default, but need to identify any major ports that have >>>> run-time >>>> issues due to it. >>>> >>>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow_protection >>>> >>> >>> We have not had any feedback on this yet and want to get it enabled by >>> default for ports and packages. >>> >>> We now have a repository that you can use rather than the default to >>> help test. We need your help to identify any issues before switching >>> the >>> default. >>> >>> This repository is available for: >>> >>> head >>> 10.0 >>> 9.1,9.2,9.3 >>> >>> It is not available for 8.4. If someone is willing to test on 8.4 I >>> will >>> build a repository for it. >>> >>> Place this in /usr/local/etc/pkgs/repos/FreeBSD_ssp.conf: >>> >>> FreeBSD: { enabled: no } >>> FreeBSD_ssp: { >>> url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/ssp", >>> mirror_type: "srv", >>> signature_type: "fingerprints", >>> fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg", >>> enabled: yes >>> } >>> >>> Once that is done you should force reinstall packages from this >>> repository: >>> >>> pkg update >>> pkg upgrade -f >>> >>> Thanks for your help! >>> Bryan Drewery >>> On behalf of portmgr. >>> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> Is it necessary to upgrade all packages at once or can I just enable >> WITH_SSP and upgrade ports as they are updated in the ports tree? >> > > You can let them update on their own if you wish. Of course SSP won't be > in the binaries until they are rebuilt. > Hi, As you wanted feedback. I run with WITH_SSP_PORTS=yes in /etc/make.conf for about a month now on a desktop machine. A lot of ports have recompiled in the meantime. Things like Firefox, icewm, urxvt, virtualbox. No problem so far. Cheers, Ronald.
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