On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 15:02 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: > On Wednesday 29 October 2008 06:37:32 Panu Matilainen wrote: > > We have kernel support for storing capabilities on filesystem since 2.6.24 > > and recent libcap, both in F9 already. > > And we have also been busy updating everything else to support this: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449984 > > > > I just committed file capability support to rpm.org HEAD, filling in the > > final(?) missing piece. Capability support is not going to be in rpm 4.6.0 > > but no reason they can't be pulled into 4.6.1 which is easily in F11 > > timeframe. > > We tried to support this in F-10 by having a test run with ping. We figured > that is a simple well defined app that could be used as a test subject. We > opened bz 455713 to document the change over. Turns out that people compile > their own kernels and do not necessarily turn this on. So, what do we do in > that case? Modify ping to work in either scenario. Get the patches accepted upstream. This is not dissimilar from efforts of getting SELinux integrated (init patches, -Z patches, etc). Dax Kelson Guru Labs -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
