BZ 533427

[Gene Czarcinski]

On Tuesday 17 November 2009 12:43:58 Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "GC" == Gene Czarcinski <gene at czarc.net> writes:
> 
> GC> Quickly??  Ten days to get a package pushed??
> 
> Wow.  If you really really want it right this instant and aren't willing
> to wait for the volunteers that provide this operating system to you to
> work through everything they have to do to get Fedora 12 out the door in
> addition to the work of getting updates and such out for Fedora 11 and
> 10, why don't you:
> 
> Check the source out of CVS and build it yourself?
> 
> Download the build from koji?
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=32 and pick a
> build for the OS version you want.  Probably
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=140508
> 
> It's all made available to you, all the source, the buildsystem,
> everything.  If you simply can't wait for the updates process to catch
> up, you have plenty of other means to get the software.
> 

Unfortunately, you have missed the entire point of my email!

Yes, I can go get an update from koji, or get the source and do it myself, or 
simply apply the "fix" suggested by audit2allow, or set permissive mode, or 
disable selinux.  Any of these would get around the problem.  But, this would 
not be the "official" selinux-policy package update.

The problem in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533427 impacts the 
abrt package's ability to function properly.  The abrt package is a really 
good new feature in Fedora 12 and should help resolve problems more quickly 
since it provides a lot more information than many users include in the 
handcrafted reports (myself included).

The problem was reported on 6 November 2009 at 13:33 EDT and Dan Walsh 
responded on 6 November 2008 at 14:38 EDT (a bit over an hour) that the 
problem was fixed in selinux-policy-3.6.32-42.fc12.noarch and the BZ report was 
closed as fixed in rawhide (perhaps closing this problem so quickly was an 
error).

Today is 17 November 2009 and Fedora 12 is GA but there is no "day zero" fix 
for the problem ... not even in updates-testing (last I checked around 1400 
EST).  I claim that something in the process of getting fixes out (at least 
selinux-policy fixes) is broken.  This is what I am trying to get fixed so 
users do not set permissive mode or simply disable selinux.

Gene
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