Attention: Proprietary video driver users (ATI, Nvidia, etc.)

[Rudolf Kastl]

2006/2/23, dragoran <dragoran at feuerpokemon.de>:
> Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
>
> > Davide Bolcioni wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Could SELinux be used to prevent this and, more generally, disallow
> >> replacement of rpm-controlled files even by the root user ?
> >>
> >
> > That would be incredibly annoying and is not where we want to go... It
> > would complicate updates and installs and configuration and everything
> > that is normal administration.
> >
> > People should just learn by their "mistakes" and replace whatever rpm
> > their operations may have corrupted.
> >
> > I realize that some people need these rpms and thats why mharris
> > kindly suggests that these people use the third party repos.
> >
> > Problem solved :o)
> >
> > /Thomas
> >
> >
> won't help ...
> people will ask on the nvidia forums an get a reply "do setenforce 0
> before installing the driver and setenforce 1 after it finished"

thats definitely a worst case scenario ;)

regards,
rudolf kastl

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