Re: Policy error of the day

[Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:50:21AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 01:47, Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com> wrote:
> > The policy build error for today is:
> >
> > ERROR 'unknown type mailman_queue_chkpwd_t' at token ';' on line 81971:
> > #line 10047
> > allow mailman_queue_su_t mailman_queue_chkpwd_t:process transition;
> > /usr/bin/checkpolicy:  error(s) encountered while parsing configuration
> > make: *** [/etc/security/selinux/policy.15] Error 1
> 
> The chkpwd changes broke mailman.  I'm not sure whether it's worth trying to 
> fix this or whether mailman itself should be fixed instead.  I'll probably do 
> a work-around soon.

Is anything in progress? I've not found a way to get by 
this without going into the end-result disk image and fiddling
things manually, which is a pain. I haven't got any other workaround
because I install packages into the chrooted image like this:

 yes "" | PRIORITY=low DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive /usr/bin/apt-get -qqqqq -y install "$name" > /dev/null

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