"Could not change policy booleans"

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Jun 14 16:15:06 UTC 2007


Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
>> On an unrelated issue, where does the version number in the 
>> selinux-policy package come from? Upstream seems to do date-based 
>> releases rather than version number-based. I ask because I need to 
>> update my policy module for mod_fcgid and I'll need different versions 
>> for F7 (using patterns) and older releases (using create_file_perms 
>> etc.).
>>
>> Paul.
> It comes from me.
> 
> selinux-policy-2.3.4
> 
> Everytime I release My own modifications I increment the last digit, 
> everytime I merge with upstream I update the middle number, and reset 
> the last digit to 1.  Everytime there is a major change to policy 
> example-reference I increment the first. digit.  If you do a
> 
> rpm -qi selinux-policy
> It will show you the revision this policy is based off of.

That works on F7 but not on FC6 or earlier, where the latest update 
doesn't include the svn revision in %description.

I'll check through cvs and figure out which selinux-policy package 
version the things I need came in at.

> BTW,  I am working on merging strict and targeted policy in Rawhide 
> which will increment the major number.  selinux-policy-3.0.1 will be 
> released soon.

More fun to look forward to!

Paul.




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