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

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