On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:19:55PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > Package: xserver-common > Version: 4.2.1-15 > Severity: normal > > Currently the postinst creates a temporary file in /tmp for the new Xwrapper.config. There is no benefit in doing this, > it might as well use $XWRAPPER_CONFIG.dpkg-new all along with no loss of functionality. Ugh, you should know to wrap your lines at <= 80 columns! > For SE Linux a file created in /tmp gets a different context, and if > it is moved to /etc and /etc and /tmp are in the same file system then > it retains a type that prevents most domains from accessing it. Is SE Linux an officially supported configuration yet? I'm trying to understand why this shouldn't be wishlist bug. Either way, there is a lot of higher-priority stuff on my plate right now, and as easy as this sounds, it would be quite helpful if you could supply a patch. For extra bonus points, fix xserver-xfree86, which does a similar thing. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's "magic" is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | engineering. "Supernatural" is a branden@debian.org | null word. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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