On Wed, Oct 21 2009, 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.
ok. I have put all the patches at:
http://www.golden-gryphon.com/software/misc/flex-patches/
If you want to browse the git repository and see which topic
branches these patches come from, you may browse the repo at:
http://git.debian.org/?p=users/srivasta/debian/flex.git
The upstream sources are in the upstream branch, and the various
topic--[!old]foo branches are feature branches, and master is the
integration branch that Debian packages are built from.
I hope this helps.
manoj
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