On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Laurent Bigonville <bi...@debian.org>
wrote:
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> Do you have a policy installed on your machine?
>
I do not - I was unable to install the latest selinux-policy-default
package from unstable due to dependency problems that I was unable to
resolve.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
selinux-policy-default : Depends: policycoreutils (>= 2.2.1) but it is not
going to be installed
udev : Depends: libblkid1 (>= 2.19.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: adduser but it is not going to be installed
Depends: util-linux (>= 2.27.1)
Depends: procps
> The policy package currently in unstable is not compatible with the new
> userspace and needs to be adjusted, see bug #805492.
>
Ah, it does look like the same problem. However, I expected some sort of
safeguard that would prevent me from breaking my system -- i.e. a check in
selinux-activate that ensured that a policy was available, if that is
required to boot. Making my system unbootable is not desired behaviour.
> I've unfortunately not a lot of time for this. That means that if you want
> to use SELinux in debian, you'll have to compile/build your own policy.
>
I can understand that. I have some experience with Debian packaging, but
little with SELinux or advanced things like maintainer scripts, however I'd
be happy to spend a few weekends hacking on this if you can give me some
direction. I'll read through #805492 this weekend and come back to you with
questions.
Thanks again for all your contributions to Debian :)
