nixpkgs/nixos
Maximilian Bosch a5341beb78
linux: drop *_latest_hardened-attributes in favor of versioned attributes
The problem behind this is that the hardened patchset[1]. Quite recently
this led to a weird problem when Linux 5.12 was dropped (and thus had to
be removed from `nixpkgs`), there were no patches for 5.13, so
`linuxPackages_hardened_latest` had to be downgraded to 5.10 as base[2]
which may be rather unintuitive and unexpected.

To avoid these kind of "silent downgrades" in the future, it makes sense
to drop the attribute entirely. If somebody wants to use a hardened
kernel, it's better to explicitly pin it using the newly introduced
versioned attributes, e.g. `linuxPackages_4_14_hardened`.

[1] https://github.com/anthraxx/linux-hardened/
[2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/133587
2021-08-16 20:45:58 +02:00
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doc linux: drop *_latest_hardened-attributes in favor of versioned attributes 2021-08-16 20:45:58 +02:00
lib Merge pull request #133675 from Ma27/test-driver-compat 2021-08-16 14:07:01 +02:00
maintainers amazonImage: make statically sized again 2021-05-01 02:19:42 +00:00
modules Merge pull request #133793 from scvalex/fix-kubernetes-1-22 2021-08-16 15:46:10 +02:00
tests linux: drop *_latest_hardened-attributes in favor of versioned attributes 2021-08-16 20:45:58 +02:00
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release-combined.nix release-combined.tested: Add the Sway test 2021-05-27 13:36:48 +02:00
release-small.nix
release.nix Merge pull request #121834 from samueldr/feature/raspberrypi4-image-cleanup 2021-05-10 14:05:02 -04:00

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