From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3C14EE14.1090505@pcez.com> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 09:17:08 -0800 From: Shaun Savage MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Smalley CC: SELinux@tycho.nsa.gov Subject: Re: New security policy References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Stephen Smalley wrote: >On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Shaun Savage wrote: > >>I have compiled some of the selinux utils for RH7.2, I hope to do the >>rest this week. >>this is how I did it >> >>I first did >rpm -bp XXXX.spec >>the patched the XXXX directory using the patch >>on some XXXX i needed to autoconf (caution: the autoconf that comes >>with RH7.2 is bad upgrade to 2.52 from GNU.org) >>I then go back to the SPEC directory and rpm -bc --short-circuit XXXX.spec >>then rpm -bi --short-circuit XXXX.spec >> > >In our work in upgrading the utilities, we've encountered a fair number of >rejects from the existing patches that have required manual merging, and >at least some of those manual merges were non-trivial. We also had to add >stat64 variants of the stat_secure system calls, with transparent >redirection, in order to support the new fileutils package. Are you >actually dealing with any of these kinds of issues in your patches? > I entered most of patches by hand, I thought most the manual patches easy. The issue of stat_secure calls with transparent redirection, I don't know. I have only working on selinux for about 3 days. I want to get the support programs ported first. If you want I can make RPM's. Shaun Savage -- You have received this message because you are subscribed to the selinux 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.