On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Dominick Grift <dac.overr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 12:14:16PM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: >> Part of the reason that we tend to not introduce a new policy >> capability more often is that it is painful to do so currently. We >> have to patch libsepol to recognize the new capability and patch the >> policy to declare it (although for the latter we can now declare them >> via a CIL module without modifying the base policy). And since the >> policy or module won't build without the updated libsepol, we can't >> turn on the capability by default in refpolicy without making it >> dependent on a new libsepol version. That's why extended_socket_class >> isn't yet enabled in refpolicy, for example. That causes enablement >> and adoption to lag behind. It also makes it harder to test the new >> kernel feature in the first place. > > I would like to see Fedora package the RC's in Rawhide as well (other > distributions could help by packaging the RC's in unstable as well). That > would atleast make the RC's a bit more accessible. > In Fedora it is usually not the kernel that is the problem, it is user space > that is generally to old. And as you've said policy is no longer a problem > with CIL.
[NOTE: I'm still thinking about the rest of Stephen's email, and the follow up comments, but I wanted to reply to this particular comment separately.] I'm not sure I want to see SELinux userspace release candidates in normal Rawhide, but I think creating a COPR repository to build/distribute release candidates could be a good thing. We already do something similar for the kernel patches and it has been helpful in my opinion. https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/pcmoore/kernel-secnext -- paul moore www.paul-moore.com
