Developers of packages please pay attention to selinux labeling.

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 07/13/2010 06:25 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> If you are changing the locate of an executable or libraries the
> executables write to, please make sure SELinux labels are still
> consistant or contact the selinux developers for help.  IF you update a
> package in a released version of Fedora and change the locations you
> MUST make sure it still works with selinux in enforcing mode.
>
> packagekit got released this to F13 and Rawhide this week and changed
> its location. packagekitd should be labeled rpm_exec_t,  Since it moved
> it got the default label and is now running unconfined.  This causes
> labels to get screwed up and lots of bugs are being reported on it.  It
> gives SELinux a bad name.  And it makes our user community mad.  SELinux
> has been around a long time.  Packages should be using it at least in
> testing.  This is unacceptable.
>   

Wasn't there a move earlier to move policies to the packages instead of
maintaining everything centrally?  As long as it abstracted away from
me, I don't really pay much attention to it.  If it was part of my
package, I probably can keep it updated better.

Rahul