hardened-sources, php and oci8-instant-client

twenty-three

hi,

i'm running a gentoo LAMP server and wanted to switch it to the hardened/x86/2.6 profile. now the use-flag "oci8-instant-client" from the dev-lang/php5 is masked by the profile. is there anything i can do about it? anything other than using the oci8 use flag and installing a complete oracle server? i did not even find a reason why it is masked...

thanks in advance!
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Sadako · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:49 pm Post subject:

I asked in #gentoo-hardened why the oci8-instant-client USE flag wasn't unmasked when the oci8 one was, but got no response.

If you really want it you can simply add "-oci8-instant-client" to /etc/portage/profile/use.mask.
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twenty-three · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:31 am Post subject:

This would have been my solution, too

. But I just thought it would be better to ask before I switch our production server. So I'll rather have to set up a test machine and try it out.

Thanks
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hoffie · Retired Dev Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 24

twenty-three · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:13 am Post subject:

I know Oracle quite well and could imagine that it doesn't work on hardened systems. But masking "oci8-instant-client" and unmasking "oci8" makes no real sense for me. The other way around would sound more realistic: why should the server run but not the client package?
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