From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Drop legacy boolean/users support (setlocaldefs) From: Karl MacMillan To: Stephen Smalley Cc: Joshua Brindle , selinux@tycho.nsa.gov, Darrel Goeddel In-Reply-To: <1177601905.24282.354.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> References: <1177594803.24282.322.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> <4630C527.50100@manicmethod.com> <1177601905.24282.354.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:28:21 -0400 Message-Id: <1177604901.3405.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 11:38 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 11:28 -0400, Joshua Brindle wrote: > > Stephen Smalley wrote: > > > The following patch series completely removes the legacy support for > > > local boolean and user definitions (setlocaldefs) from libsepol and > > > libselinux and updates libsemanage and policycoreutils for the resulting > > > interface changes and removals. As such, it requires bumping the .so > > > versions, which has already been done on the policyrep branch (and these > > > patches are therefore intended to be applied there first, and then > > > merged to trunk later along with the policyrep work). > > > > > > > > Hrm, it doesn't seem appropriate to merge things entirely unrelated to > > the policyrep branch into that branch just because the soversion was > > bumped there. Karl, what do you think about this? > > The alternative is to apply it in a separate branch and merge them > separately to trunk or merge them together later and then to trunk. > Seems less painful to get it all done together, only bump the .so > version once, and avoid conflicts a priori by keeping it within a single > devel branch. > > So, at worst, the branch is ill-named ;) > I'm fine with mixing them - I thought that the plan from the beginning was to break compatibility once. Karl -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.