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From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
To: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
Cc: SE-Linux <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: warning about debian hotplug package 20040329-9!
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 12:22:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040711112237.GI3390@lkcl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407112050.08313.russell@coker.com.au>

On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 08:50:08PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 06:14, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:
> > warning warning warning, do not install hotplug version 20040329-9
> > from debian unstable because /etc/hotplug/net.rc attempts to write
> > to /etc/hotplug/net.enable.
> >
> > hotplug writing to /etc/ even /etc/hotplug is banned by the [present]
> > selinux policy.
> >
> > i'm raising a bugreport about this one if there isn't one already.
> 
> That package is broken in other ways.  

 oh-ah?  oops.

 because it's being depended on in debian for quite a lot of things,
 like loading atmel wireless networking firmware.

> It doesn't work with PC-Card or Cardbus 
> Ethernet devices doing DHCP.  

 hm, it's all scripted (sh, bash) so that should be fixable, oh well.

> Just use -8.
 
 -8.  i'm really sorry but i've not heard of -8, and a search
 with google strips away the "-".

 do you have a url for it?

 l.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-11 11:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-09 20:14 warning about debian hotplug package 20040329-9! Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-07-11 10:50 ` Russell Coker
2004-07-11 11:22   ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [this message]
2004-07-11 11:33     ` Russell Coker
2004-07-11 11:52       ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
     [not found]     ` <40F16D8B.4010601@bellsouth.net>
2004-07-11 20:50       ` [SE/Linux] " Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-07-11 20:50         ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-07-12 21:16         ` Chris Babcock
2004-07-12 21:16           ` Chris Babcock
2004-07-13 10:19           ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-07-13 10:19             ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton

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