issue on 'fixfiles relabel'

[Karsten Wade]

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 10:49, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 11:26, Park Lee wrote:
> > On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:29:17, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > >The policy package installs a copy of the file_contexts file to
> > >/etc/security/selinux so that it is available for use by fixfiles,
> > >setfiles, or restorecon even if policy sources is not available.
> > But in <<Fedora Core 2 SELinux FAQ>>,there is one statement:
> > > You will need to have the policy-sources package 
> > > installed to use setfiles.
> >  
> > Then, If policy package installs a copy of the file_contexts file to
> > /etc/security/selinux, is it necessary to install policy-sources
> > package in order to use setfiles? 
> 
> No, policy-sources is not required to use setfiles; you can apply
> setfiles to the installed file_contexts configuration file (and fixfiles
> is just a script that runs setfiles on it).  Bug in the FAQ, please
> bugzilla it.

I'm including this update in the FAQ update (1.2-8), along with several
others.  The FC2 SELinux FAQ should then be current.

I'm working on an FC3test1 FAQ, as there have been some noteworthy
changes since FC2.

- Karsten
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