Re: Improving security for pkgsrc

[Marc Espie <espie%nerim.net@localhost>]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 12:05:06PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 01:23:35AM +0200, Pierre Pronchery wrote:
> > Please tell me if I'm wrong, but I believe SSP is *not* enabled by
> > default on NetBSD's base system, with any architecture - even in -current.
> 
> It is enabled only in parts of the tree, since together with -Werror
> it causes lots of fallout otherwise.

... and it takes lots of efforts to get ssp to work properly, especially
with a compiler that has bugs.

from there, it's simpler to dismiss it as not being useful, rather than
figure out where to go from there, right Joerg ?