Re: [SE/Linux] status / progress report 13jun2004
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:46, Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:40:05PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> > The alternative to this is to patch dpkg with SE Linux support in the
> > way that rpm has been. Should I implement the needed functionality in
> > that manner?
>
> I would suggest that. SE Linux is an exception in that it needs to
> update file system attributes for /any/ installed package. Creating too
> generic solutions to such highly exceptional situations seems overly
> broad to me.
Your suggestion makes sense to me. DPKG people, what do you think? I'm happy
to write the code, but I don't want to write code that will never be
accepted.
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