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List:       selinux
Subject:    Re: [PATCH 0/2] new and improved range_transition statements
From:       Valdis.Kletnieks () vt ! edu
Date:       2006-07-31 15:10:43
Message-ID: 200607311510.k6VFAhrw006155 () turing-police ! cc ! vt ! edu
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:43:15 EDT, Stephen Smalley said:

> I agree that it is too late for 2.6.18, but just to clarify - the kernel
> patch preserves backward compatibility for older binary policy
> formats.  
> 
> As far as compatibility is concerned, FC4 will need some kind of
> userland update when it updates to a kernel with the new policy format;
> otherwise, init will give up when it cannot find policy.21 or policy.20
> (older sysvinit selinux patch only tried n and (n-1)), and the policy in
> FC4 was version 19.

Given that Andrew Morton is currently having a cow over the fact that
2.6.18-rc3 includes a change that breaks the udev that shipped with FC3,
we might want to make sure we have all our ducks lined up....

(To be fair, the udev change is one that breaks any udev more than 10 months
or so old...)

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