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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Cleanup of sec-policy (old ebuilds)
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:24:23
Message-Id: 4D6A6C25.3040002@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Cleanup of sec-policy (old ebuilds) by Sven Vermeulen
1 On 02/27/2011 10:14 AM, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
2 > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:05:28AM -0500, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
3 >> Since the selinux policies come as a set with the same date as a version
4 >> number, wouldn't it be better to, say, remove all the 20080525 first.
5 >> Fix any brokenness, then deal with 20090730, etc until we've removed the
6 >> sets we want gone?
7 >
8 > I was first thinking of cleaning up everything except the latest 2.20101213
9 > ebuilds, but if we remove any stable policy package and we have 1 user that
10 > has that stable package installed, then his next world update will fail. By
11 > not touching the latest stable ebuild (until the 2.20101213's stabilize) we
12 > at least are more confident that that won't happen.
13 >
14 > Wkr,
15 > Sven Vermeulen
16
17 How does stabilization proceed for selinux? Has a precedence been set?
18 There's over 200 packages. It cannot be done individually.
19
20 If we're going to clean up everything except 2.20101213, then let's get
21 them stabilized first and remove all the others.
22
23 --
24 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
25 Gentoo Developer

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