Gene Heskett wrote: > Why did you snip the rest of my comment about the manpages? Or was that > in a subsequent message since this seems to be bouncing back and forth > between private mail and the list? I don't know and this has gone on > long enough with nothing but shouting and handwaving which is bound to > upset the rest of the readers of this list. > > I stated precisely what was wrong with those manpages and I see no reason > not to say it out loud. Docs don't get fixed if we are not allowed to > fault them and those are damned sure faulty. I am not saying the documents are perfect. And I will stipulate that man pages are an outdated form of documentation which should be abolished, not updated. I only mentioned man pages because you claimed there aren't any. As I have said again and again there are a lot of comprehensive documents on the web about configuration, customization and inner workings of selinux. They are one google search away. > They (the definitions of those vars shown in UPPERCASE) don't exist in > those manpages and no amount of ignoring that fact is ever going to make > it right. I am looking at the man page and I don't see any "uppercase cariables" except the normal man page standard to write command switch arguments in uppercase (FILE, CONTEXT etc.). What are you refering to? > So enough already, fix the selinux related manpages so WE, the users, can > fix our own stumbles. It really, really is that simple. This is silly. As I have said time and again, the documentation is there, if you do not read it you will not be able to fix things. > As for your comment re the src, I turned on a few fedora src links in my > yum.repos.d and never did find the srcs for selinux. Where exactly did you look? For kernel parts of selinux just install kernel sources. For the selinux libraries and utilities yumdownloader --source libselinux. Where exactly did you look for the sources?
