On Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:01:04 Thomas S Hatch wrote: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Yaro Kasear <yaro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Friday, April 08, 2011 14:29:34 Heiko Baums wrote: > > > Am Fri, 8 Apr 2011 10:55:16 -0600 > > > > > > schrieb Thomas S Hatch <thatch45@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > > Yaro makes many good points, I think that my recommendation would > > > > be > > > > > > to allow someone to maintain support for SELinux in community. If > > > > SELinux support is deemed something that would be a good idea to > > > > move > > > > > > to core in the future than do so, otherwise leave it in community. > > > > > > I'd prefer a separate [selinux] repo. So that people know what they are > > > doing. > > > > > > I know, packages with SELinux support could and should be named > > > something like selinux-XXX or XXX-selinux, but I think a new repo would > > > be better and more secure - not only from SELinux' view. > > > > > > This way SELinux users can just add [selinux] to pacman.conf above > > > [core]. For the other users it should be deactivated by default. > > > > > > Heiko > > > > Here's another question. Isn't it general packaging policy to not fully > > support packages that have unofficial upstream patches applied? Isn't > > SELinux "unofficial" to all the upstream? > > SELinux has been in the vanilla kernel for quite some time, say the 2.6.20 > ish realm, and the majority of the core utils have had SELinux support > built in for years. SELinux is official upstream. > > But I don't want to argue about this anymore :) I think that we have a > solution, I will be putting up an SELinux third party repo for testing in > the next month or two and then once we have an assurance that it is working > well we look into moving SELinux support into community. > > This has been a great discussion, and I am excited to get some work done on > improving SELinux support on Arch! > > -Thomas S Hatch What about the SELinux patches for things other than the kernel? Are those "official" to upstream? This is not for an argument, now I'm just genuinely curious.
