Policy Module Packaging Guidelines (first draft)

[Paul Howarth]

Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 13:49 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>> * How should the selinux policy module be versioned?  Should it match
>>> the application versioning?  Are there any restrictions on policy module
>>> version numbers?
>> I don't think that policy numbers need bear any resemblance to the main 
>> package version; I've added a note to that effect. I'm not sure what the 
>> actual restrictions are on numbering, e.g whether any characters not in 
>> the class [0-9.] are allowed.
> 
> It can basically be any character; anything that works right with
> strverscmp().  For sanity we probably want to stick to [0-9a-z.].  
> 
> Upstream refpolicy versioning is x.y.z, where z is incremented every
> time the module changes, y is incremented on a upstream release if the
> module has changed since the last release (i.e. z != 0), and x is
> incremented on major changes to the module.

Thanks; I've added these details to the wiki page.

Paul.