selinux-policy-targeted : Why are there so many updates so frequently?

Rahul Sundaram rahulsundaram at gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 10:34:19 UTC 2005


On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:39:45 -0500, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:02:15AM +0000, VJ wrote:
> >    Pardon me for asking this simple question. It comes from my lack of
> > knowledge about SELinux.
> >    Ever since I installed FC3, there have been so many updates to this
> > package. Why so?
> 
> In short -- the package is still being tested, and getting its testing via
> real-world use in Fedora. Since this is the case, it's good of the package
> maintainers to release the frequent updates they do, since it'd be
> significantly worse to be testing in production yet be stuck with all of
> the
> original bugs and not just the new ones.

it has gone well beyond the testing phase. its enabled by default in
RHEL 4 but like any new technology thats exposed to the real world is
being tweaked to work better


-- 
Regards,
Rahul Sundaram




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