On Nov 24, 2004, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Nov 24, 2004, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Ok we can turn off automatic update of policy from >>> selinux-policy-*sources, but then >>> the user will need to manually update the policy if he has manipulated it. >> Can't we find a middle ground, like: update policy automatically if >> there have been changes, and leave it alone otherwise since the >> non-sources policy update will have already taken care of it? > Sure, but how can I tell in the post install section of the sources package? One relatively simple way is to have make rules that use move-if-changed after attempting to update the policy files into a temporary name. If the policy update is a no-op, you'll keep the old timestamp and rpm won't complain any more. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
