Re: distribution of kernel patches

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Russell Coker wrote:

> This raises another issue. It's probably a good idea to ship a copy of the
> un-patched utility programs.
>
> Hopefully I won't have the same problems here (at least you presumably have
> the matching upstream source somewhere, and it's too new to have disappeared
> from all the FTP sites yet). But to save future problems for us it would be
> good to have a copy of the source without the patches.

We have the original unpatched sources in CVS, so I suppose we could provide unpatched source tar balls for each of the modified daemons and utilities. But I expect that you'll need to port the SELinux daemon and utility patches to the corresponding source package provided with Debian, unless they happen to use the same base sources as RedHat and do not deviate significantly in terms of distribution-specific patches.

Also, unless you want to defer it to your end users, it would be good for you to customize setfiles/file_contexts and the example policy configuration for a typical Debian system.

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Stephen D. Smalley, NAI Labs
ssmalley@nai.com





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