New testcase for installation without selinux

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Feb 1 07:04:44 UTC 2012


On 01/31/2012 09:00 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 11:43 -0500, Chris Lumens wrote:
>>> "The installed system must run normally if the user chooses to install without SELinux"
>>>
>>> There is no test case for this now.
>>>
>>> I have one note on this. There is used noselinux option, but it doesn't work now. I filled bug [2] there is another option with the same effect - selinux=0 and this one works fine, but Anaconda have noselinux in documentation, so it should work and they're working on it.
>>
>> The option to install without selinux was added at a time when selinux
>> was a new, experimental feature in Fedora.  Now, it's an integral part
>> of the distribution.  It's time for this option to go away.

I disagree. Though SELinux isn't in the poor shape it once was, there 
are still situations, where users prefer or can not avoid to switch off 
SELinux.

> If we don't want to support that, the alternative is to ditch the
> release criterion. I'm okay with that.

I am not OK with that.

Ralf


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