How to get an SELinux policy change

[Hans de Goede]

Jerry James wrote:
> I'm working on getting GCL to run again.  The current Debian patch
> (which is enormous) fixes most problems, but not the long-running
> SELinux problem that GCL has had.  I took a hint from a thread on this
> list a couple of months ago.  I let make run until it crashed due to a
> denied mprotect() call, did chcon -t java_exec_t on the binaries, and
> restarted the make.  It completed successfully.  I can patch the
> makefile to do the chcon call in the right place, but I'm worried
> about getting the right security context on installation now.  First,
> is using java_exec_t in this way acceptable?  Second, if so, how do I
> ask for Fedora's policy to reflect that: bugzilla, request on this
> list, some other list?  Thanks,

Just file a bugzilla against selinux-policy. Dan Walsh (the maintainer) is 
usually very fast and correct in fixing issues like this one.

Regards,

Hans