On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 09:50 -0500, James Carter wrote: > On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 09:28 -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 18:25 -0500, Caleb Case wrote: > > > This patch moves the module store from /etc/selinux/<store>/modules to > > > /var/lib/selinux/<store>. > > > > Can the path prefix (i.e. /var/lib/selinux) be made configurable? > > > There would be no other prefixes other than /var/lib/selinux > or /etc/selinux, or do you have something else in mind? > > I guess that you are thinking of backwards compatibility, but you still > won't have it even if you change the prefix because the directory > structure is different (priority directories and such). I don't see > what you would gain with changing the prefix. I just dislike the notion that to change the location one would have to recompile the library. Even worse, one would have to modify the sources versus just altering a -D flag in the Makefile specifying the path prefix. We already have one such case in libsemanage with a FIXME comment next to it; I didn't want to extend the set of such cases. -- 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.
