PaX support in binutils and SSP compiled packages are two very nice things to have. The problem at this moment is that you cant have both at the same time at this moment. Using for example Steve Kemp's GCC w SSP[1], binutils comes compiled with SSP. If you then installs Petersen's binutils with PaX patch[2] Kemp's version of binutils gets uninstalled. This isn't odd, but it's pretty annoying because, imo, both PaX and SSP should be pretty much standard. Setting up a third repository seemd kind of ridiculous only to provide these packages with both SSP and PaX, so is there any plans to coordinate this kind of things and set up a centralized repository for patches like SSP and PaX? [1]http://people.debian.org/~skx/propolice.html [2]http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2004/07/msg00096.html /Thomas -- == Encrypted e-mails preferred | GPG KeyID: 114AA85C --
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