fixfiles -F option

[Daniel J Walsh]

On 10/05/2009 10:20 AM, Moray Henderson (ICT) wrote:
> Hello List.
> 
> I have an rpm for an selinux policy for a custom CentOS 5.3 distribution.  When I install it, I use pre/post install scripts to back up the previous file contexts and run "fixfiles -C ${FILE_CONTEXT}.pre restore" as in the standard selinux-policy-targeted rpm.
> 
> On an upgrade, old httpd_sys_content_t files are not being updated to public_content_rw_t because httpd_sys_content_t is in the customizable_types file.
> 
> According to the fixfiles man page, -F should "Force reset of context to match file_context for customizable files", but when I added it, it made no difference.  I had a look at the fixfiles script, and indeed it looks as if -F doesn't work with -C.  Is that correct, or did I miss something?
> 
> Is there a recommended way to do that?
> 
> 
> Moray.
> "To err is human.  To purr, feline"
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