Re: dpkg and selinux

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:50:28PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 18:25 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 02:30:03PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > > However I'm loath to embed specific selinux support into dpkg if it
> > > introduces extra dependencies, or causes problems for those not using
> > > it.
> >  
> >  1) fortunately, the only extra dependency will be libselinux1 which
> >     needs to be made "Required" such that cron, coreutils, logrotate,
> > 	ssh etc. can use it.
> > 
> That rules that solution out, then.  

 ... temporarily.

> I'm not going to add a dpkg
> dependency on libselinux until selinux is the default (over chown/chmod/
> etc.)
 
 it's okay: the only reason that libselinux1 isn't presently "Required"
 is because of the sarge freeze...

 ... which brings us neatly back full circle as to why i contacted you
 last month to see if i could help in oxford :)

 l.


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