Re: SELinux RPM Version

[Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:03:07PM -0400, Howard Holm wrote:

> I guess the one thought to take away is that there are these different
> models, and unless we can all agree on one, perhaps the best thing is
> to allow divergence until use in practice demonstrates some convincing
> advantages of one model or another.  I wish I had definitive answers,
> but I think we're in largely uncharted waters - SELinux is a set of
> distribution neutral changes that nevertheless make pervasive changes
> in a distribution.  It's hard to know the best way to package it.

They may not be as disparate as you fear. Many products will start from
Debian or a package (binary or source) set too make updates easy; it's
really hell and rather costly to diverge too far from the upstream
maintainer's code base, so the economics are driven by that unless
you've a really big operation behind you.

Perhaps the way to think of it is this:

upstream   package              product
main.      main.                maint.
Smalley -> ----      (TGZ) ->   ----             -> end user
           Coker     (DEB)      specialist dists
           Westerman (RPM)      pkg solutions



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