SELinux silently disabled on boot under 2.6.14/2.6.14.2 on FC3 system ?

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 12:07:00PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
 > CC'ing Dave.
 > 
 > Stephen Smalley (sds at tycho.nsa.gov) said: 
 > > In rawhide, /sbin/init has been changed to use a libselinux helper
 > > function to load policy that is more resilient in several respects, and
 > > I think that the plan was to back port those changes to FC3 if/when a
 > > 2.6.14 kernel is released for it. 
 > 
 > 2.6.14 for FC3 isn't planned, as far as I know.

Correct. FC3 will stay at 2.6.12 until end of life.
Any remaining kernel updates will likely be security errata only
at this point.

 > > FC4 is still ok since there has only
 > > been one version increment since it was shipped, but will encounter the
 > > same issue when/if another version increment occurs and the
 > > corresponding kernel is released for it, so it should also get the
 > > new /sbin/init and libselinux helper code.  
 > 
 > Hm, OK. We'll probably need poked again if/when that happens.

FC4 will continue to rebase to newer upstream kernels until a few
months before its end of life. (As has happened with FC3).

		Dave