rawhide install troubles

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Thu Jan 29 21:38:27 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 16:26 -0500, Karl MacMillan wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 16:15, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 01:14 -0800, Gary Peck wrote:
> > > - the SELinux policy package doesn't get pulled in by anything when
> > >   doing an upgrade. maybe something can depend on it? or maybe this
> > >   should just go in the "unsupported" category.
> > 
> > This is a good thing, IMHO.  Enabling it on an upgrade is going to
> > require some manual changes and thus I don't think that it should get
> > pulled in on an upgrade.
>
> What kind of manual changes do you mean? Building the policy,
> relabeling, loading the policy?

Relabeling mostly.  You won't be able to do that in a single step
because running in a 2.4 kernel, security xattrs won't be able to be set
on files.  And having policy load without a labeled filesystem is ...
interesting :-)

Cheers,

Jeremy





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