Re: selinux config - no warning during upgrades

[Bruno Wolff III <bruno wolff to>]

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 15:46:10 -0400,
  Stephen Smalley <sds tycho nsa gov> wrote:
> 
> Ok, that's a known deficiency of how seusers is managed; it isn't
> managed by rpm and there isn't a clean split between base policy
> definitions and user customizations there.
> 
> The switch to unconfined_u came with the merging of strict and targeted
> policies into one policy, and that happened in F8.  I suspect that there
> was some hackery in the F8 policy package to allow upgrades from F7 to
> work, but jumping straight from F5 to F9 wouldn't have done the same.

Thanks for the explanation.