[Nix-dev] Hardening flags enabled by default

[Bas van Dijk]

Thank you very much. Can't wait to deploy this to our LumiGuide
workstations and production servers. Great work!

16.09 is looking to be an exciting release, just like 16.03 was!

Cheers,

Bas

On 22 August 2016 at 13:31, Franz Pletz <fpletz at fnordicwalking.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> yesterday the hardening-stdenv branch was merged to staging and is
> slated to hit master soon. Here is the pull requests with lots of
> comments: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/12895
>
> This is a work globin and myself did for the last 6 months. We have
> been running that branch on our laptops and on production servers for
> months now and fixed many compilation and runtime errors in the
> process. We think it is ready now and should be included in he upcoming
> 16.09 release.
>
> For background information and how to fix your packages if they fail
> now (i.e. runtime errors we didn't catch), we have written documentation
> that is available in the nixpkgs manual:
>
>   https://hydra.nixos.org/build/38504599/download/1/nixpkgs/
> manual.html#sec-hardening-in-nixpkgs
>
> If you package new software and encounter unexpected compiler errors,
> chances are you hit some problem with a hardening flag. In the manual
> you will find the compiler errors we have encountered most of the time
> for every hardening flag.
>
> Should you encounter problems or have any other issues with the
> hardening flags, please open an issue in the nixpkgs repo and ping
> @globin and @fpletz. We have to fix those before 16.09. ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Franz
>
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