Fedora 16 Update: checkpolicy-2.1.6-2.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-15913
2011-11-15 23:40:10
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Name        : checkpolicy
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 2.1.6
Release     : 2.fc16
URL         : None
Summary     : SELinux policy compiler
Description :
Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux® kernel and a number
of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add
mandatory access controls to Linux.  The Security-enhanced Linux
kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to
improve the security of the Flask operating system. These
architectural components provide general support for the enforcement
of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those
based on the concepts of Type Enforcement®, Role-based Access
Control, and Multi-level Security.

This package contains checkpolicy, the SELinux policy compiler.
Only required for building policies.

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Update Information:

Allow ~ in  a filename, fixes problems with labeling of ld.so.cache file.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Nov 14 2011 Dan Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> - 2.1.6-2
- Allow ~ in a filename
* Fri Nov  4 2011 Dan Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> - 2.1.6-1
- Upgrade to upstream
	* Revert "checkpolicy: Redo filename/filesystem syntax to support filename trans rules"
	* drop libsepol dynamic link in checkpolicy
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update checkpolicy' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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