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RE: How to contribute: policy?
From: Scott Lowrey <slowrey_at_nospam>Date: Tue Feb 05 2008 - 19:21:45 GMT
To: "Stephen Smalley" <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
> From: Stephen Smalley [mailto:sds@tycho.nsa.gov]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 12:59 PM
>
> I'd tend to encourage people to both post it here so it can get
> upstreamed for future upstream releases and bugzilla it so that it can
> potentially be included in future updates to existing distributions.
> You can't really assume that submitting it to RH will ever get it to
the
> upstream refpolicy nor that getting it into the upstream refpolicy
will
> ever get it into an existing distribution release like RHEL 5. It has
> to be submitted separately. And ideally you could check first to see
if
> it is already in the refpolicy trunk, as naturally RHEL5 won't include
> many fixes that have already been upstreamed there.
[Sorry, I meant "upstream" when referring to changes in yet-to-be released software.]
Thanks, I'll check the latest refpolicy before submitting any patches.
Sorry for all the rookie questions, but I assume that the svn repo at http://oss.tresys.com/repos/refpolicy is still the official source for reference policy? And would I check the latest Fedora source for RHEL? -- Scott Lowrey Trusted Computer Solutions Herndon, VA -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.