Make patch SELinux compatible

[Vadym Chepkov]

On May 20, 2010, at 7:51 AM, Stephen Smalley wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 07:15 -0400, Vadym Chepkov wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Is there a way to make patch in Redhat SELinux compatible?
>> 
>> # ls -Z php.php 
>> -rw-r--r--  root root user_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 php.php
>> 
>> # patch -p1 < /root/php.patch
>> patching file php.php
>> 
>> # ls -Z php.php 
>> -rw-r--r--  root root user_u:object_r:tmp_t:s0         php.php
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=229329
> 
> But I had thought that this had been fixed in Fedora.  Maybe not.
> I'd suggest filing a bug against Fedora for it.  There is a
> patch-selinux.patch in the patch .src.rpm so it seems like they did
> support this functionality at one time, but perhaps it has broken again.
> 
> Tip: Make sure you stop restorecond before testing, as otherwise it may
> interfere with the results.

ah, I should have checked bugzilla. The problem is in RHEL5.
Since 2007, it seems. Gosh