On what schedule is selinux-policy updated?

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Mon Mar 22 19:23:25 UTC 2010


On 03/22/2010 03:16 PM, Scott Salley wrote:
>> On 03/22/2010 01:52 PM, Scott Salley wrote:
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>>> I'm excitedly awaiting a set of patches I submitted to the selinux
>>>        
>> reference policy to be picked up by Fedora. I've noticed that the
>> selinux-policy* has frequent updates available and expect to see these
>> updates soon (fingers crossed).
>>      
>>> Is there a published schedule for pushing out new selinux-policy*
>>>        
>> rpms and picking up changes from the reference policy?
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>> We like to update once per week or less.
>>
>> Your policy is in F13 and this is the same policy that is going into
>> RHEL6.
>>
>> I do not usually add new confinement to older versions of Fedora.  But
>> if you want I can ask Miroslav to back port it.
>>      
> I would like to see it back ported to F12. Does adding new confinement to older versions cause problems?
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Well if the policy has bugs yes.  If a program goes from running 
unconfined to confined and there are bugs in the confined policy, It 
would be considered a regression.


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