How to properly upgrade policy

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Sat Jun 26 10:35:35 UTC 2004


Stephen Smalley wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 06:38, Thomas Molina wrote:
>  
>
>>Let me nail this down for my own benefit; maybe I am dense.  If you 
>>install the policy source package you should refrain from also installing 
>>the policy package?  
>>
>>So is it one or the other, but not both?  
>>    
>>
>
>At present, policy-sources requires policy.  Dan, is there a reason for
>that requires?  Otherwise, I would say yes.  It doesn't hurt to have
>policy installed as well, but it seems pointless, as updates of policy
>won't touch the locally rebuilt files created by the policy sources
>install/update.
>
>  
>
policy-sources does not include the contexts files.   So you always need 
policy installed.  Policy-sources only replaces policy.## and 
file_contexts file.



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