Fedora Board Recap 2007-JUL-31

Stephen Smalley sds at tycho.nsa.gov
Fri Aug 3 12:34:53 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 17:58 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2007-07-31
> 
> == Roll Call ==
> 
>   * Attendees: Max Spevack, Seth Vidal, John Poelstra, Matt Domsch, Jef 
> Spaleta, Karsten Wade, Jesse Keating, Dennis Gilmore Bill Nottingham, 
> and Chris Aillon
> 
>   * Regrets: Steve Dickson, Chris Blizzard
> 
> == Fedora 8 Test 1 ==
>   * Special report from Fedora Release Engineering--Jesse Keating
>   * Going to slip
>     * mostly due to ongoing kernel issue with booting
>     * fix has been found
>     * Pulling updated kernel code along with fix for booting
>   * PPC
>     * IDE support is not in good shape
>     * must run with SELinux disabled

Is the ppc selinux problem a recurrence of the execmem denials due to
broken compiler toolchain?  Is there a bug report on it?
If you just dropped linux-2.6-selinux-mprotect-checks.patch from the
Fedora kernel would it allow you to leave selinux enabled on ppc?

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency




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