Re: Debian distribution of selinux

From: Russell Coker <russell_at_coker.com.au>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 00:11:58 +0200


On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 21:20, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, John S. Gage wrote:
> > Is selinux going to be made into a Debian distribution? That would be a
> > good thing.
>
> There seems to be some interest by some of the Debian developers in
> creating a SELinux package for the Debian distribution, as evidenced by
> the recent email by Manoj Srivastava and Russell Coker on the selinux
> list. See the current mailing list archives (available via email to
> majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov or online at
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=selinux).
>
> I agree that this would be a good thing, and we are trying to be helpful.
> However, it will take a certain amount of work, even aside from packaging
> issues, since the example policy and the modified daemons and utilities
> were based on a RedHat distribution.

I don't anticipate getting this done in time for the release of woody. :(

I plan to get everything in unstable after woody is released and then create an archive for back-ports to woody.

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