On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 12:56 -0400, Eric Laganowski wrote: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 21 2009, Stephen Smalley wrote: > > > >>> Re flex: What is the requirement for flex from selinux perspective? Is > >>> it known what build of flex is "known good"? > >>> > >> My impression is that one of the patches carried by the distributions > >> for flex is needed for checkpolicy to work, but no one has ever fully > >> investigated the precise dependency - people just grab the Fedora srpm > >> and apply those patches to flex, and then rebuild checkpolicy and it > >> works. I haven't seen any complaints from Debian or Gentoo so I presume > >> that they also carry the same patches for flex. > >> > >> flex -V here also shows 2.5.35. But there are three patches in the > >> Fedora package. Attached. > >> > > > > Debian currently carries 13 (though 3 of them need to be > > squashed together) patches against 2.5.35. I can make them available if > > there is interest. > > > > manoj > > > Yes please. Patches would be welcome. Did you try the three patches that I attached to my email for flex? -- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.
