libselinux tools location

[Daniel J Walsh]

Tom Diehl wrote:

>On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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>>Stephen Smalley wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 07:54, Joe Orton wrote:
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>>>>I noticed the tools moved from /usr/bin to /usr/sbin which broke the
>>>>changes I'd made to apachectl to use /usr/bin/selinuxenabled.  Are these
>>>>going to stay in /usr/sbin now, and this location change will be in
>>>>RHEL4 as well as FC4?
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>>>Sorry, who changed this?  Upstream libselinux still installs the
>>>utilities to /usr/bin (by default, unless you override the BINDIR
>>>definition).
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>>Yes they will stay in /usr/sbin.  We changed the location, as I felt 
>>these tools were not to be used by non admins.
>>They will be there in all future versions of  RHEL and FC.
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>So much for the stated policy of following upstream as much as possible.
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>If it is an important change why not get upstream to change it? 
>It appears that every time someone outside of Red Hat wants a change the
>standard answer is to get it changed upstream. Why is this different?
>It is not like Fedora will stop working without it. :-)
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>I actually agree with the change, but I am just trying to understand
>what the policy really is?
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We screwed up, we should have sent the patch to upstream, but were 
rushing to get things
cleaned up and done before a RHEL 4 Freeze.

>Regards,
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>Tom
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