upgrade from fedora core 6 to 9

[David Boles]

Mike Burger wrote:
>> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:48:56 -0400,
>>   max bianco <maximilianbianco at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Do you see any major issues with SELinux when doing these upgrades? By
>>> major issues I mean something that can't be fixed by relabeling the
>>> filesystem. I upgraded from 7 to 8 and all went well but I know
>>> someone recently had an issue with SELinux going from FC5 to F9(if I
>>> remember correctly)the issue was resolved but apparently it was not
>>> obvious that SELinux was the problem.
>> I just had one going from FC5 to F9 that will probably hit you as well.
>> The merge of strict and targeted policies changed some things and weren't
>> handled when doing a yum upgrade directly from FC5 to F9. What happens
>> is that the login to selinux user mapping and the mappings from selinux
>> users to such things as prefix, mls default, mls/mcs access and selinux
>> roles isn't correct. If you have done any local customization in that
>> area you can just look at what it is on a fresh F9 system and use semanage
>> to add the new selinux users and correct the mappings.
> 
> Makes me glad, more and more, that I turned off selinux.



Me too!!!! So that when something finally does bite you in the a$$ you can 
blame yourself and not Fedora.  ;-)

-- 


   David

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