rpm -V selinux-policy-targeted

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov 24, 2004, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Nov 24, 2004, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> wrote:

>>> Ok we can turn off automatic update of policy from
>>> selinux-policy-*sources, but then
>>> the user will need to manually update the policy if he has manipulated it.

>> Can't we find a middle ground, like: update policy automatically if
>> there have been changes, and leave it alone otherwise since the
>> non-sources policy update will have already taken care of it?

> Sure, but how can I tell in the post install section of the sources package?

One relatively simple way is to have make rules that use
move-if-changed after attempting to update the policy files into a
temporary name.  If the policy update is a no-op, you'll keep the old
timestamp and rpm won't complain any more.

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