Re: Bug#498010: /selinux directory should be created by base-files package

[jh@tutpro.com (Juha Heinanen)]

Santiago Vila writes:

 > I fully agree that the user should never have to create the directory
 > by hand, but as far as selinux is something which may be disabled, it
 > would be better to create /selinux in whatever selinux package is
 > installed, not in base-files, which is essential.

the problem is that i'm getting this error message about /selinux even
when selinux package is not installed.  there must be something wrong in
lenny installation when it complains about a missing directory even when
my system is completely up to date, i.e., 'apt-get dist-upgrade' does
not install anything.

this can be repeated by installing lenny from 

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-LennyBeta2-i386-netinst.iso

and then by choosing nothing when installation asks about "Choose
software to install".  some package should have created /selinux at that
point, because it is referenced when lenny boots.  i was pointed to your
base-files package.

another option would be to remove that something which references
/selinux, but debian folks tell me that that cannot be done.  that is
why, the directory seems to me to be essential to debian lenny
distribution.

-- juha