SELinux-related Rawhide breakage today

[Adam Williamson]

On 2012-02-01 15:16, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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> On 02/01/2012 12:49 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>>> Yes we have shipped a policy that requires the usrmove
>>> functionality.
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>> How many times do we have to tell you that you MUST build usrmove
>> stuff in the f17-usrmove build target, NOT in f17(-candidate)???
>>
>> This is already the third time somebody else cleans up your mess!
>> (Rex Dieter fixed the first offending package, I fixed the second
>> and now Adam Williamson fixed the third.) Please build your
>> packages in the correct tag in the first place! (fedpkg build takes
>> a --target flag for a reason!)
>>
>> Kevin Kofler
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> The first two happened at the same time.  The third happened because
> of confusion over which is which.  Thanks for your consideration.
>
> But as long as we live in the Rawhide/Non Rawhide world things are
> going to be strange and mistakes are going to happen.
>
> Why anyone is on Rawhide and not trying out usrmove is beyond me at
> this time.  Rawhide is supposed to be the latest and greatest code...
>
> If we are going to do usrmove, then lets do it and get over the hump.

There are a couple of main reasons:

1) We really didn't want the /usr move to delay Alpha testing. This one 
is already proving to be genuine: it's looking like we won't really be 
ready to push the /usr move stuff into 'production' for a day or two at 
least, but we can still generate working TC1 images today, since we used 
a tag for /usr move.

2) It was at the time (and to an extent still is) unclear whether the 
feature will eventually be un-approved. Providing the builds in a tag 
allows us to try the change out and look for previously unidentified 
roadblocks. If we hit something which makes us think 'crap, maybe we 
shouldn't do this after all', we don't have to revert and bump a ton of 
packages and probably cause some new problems and make things a very 
bumpy ride for 'regular' Rawhide users: we can just never tag the 
packages across to the Rawhide repo, and the change will never have 
happened.

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