[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] This is about new functionality in base0files

[Santiago Vila]

On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

> reassign 498010  base-files
> thanks
> 
> Hi,
> 
>         policycoreutils already installs the /selinux directory. This
>  report is not about that -- since policycoreutils is not, and should
>  not be, essential, people who do not install policycoreutils see an
>  error message from init about not being able to mount selnuxfs.
>
>         policycoreutils cant help that when it is not installed.
> 
>         base-files folks need to determine if that dir should indeed
>  live on all machines (I see no harm in that), or not, and deal with
>  this bug accordingly.

Simple question: It is useful or desirable to mount the selinux fs on
/selinux when policycoreutils is not installed?

If yes, I could agree to add /selinux to base-files.

If not, then this would be just an aesthetic issue (that we might want
to fix for lenny, anyway). The package trying to mount selinux fs on
/selinux (initscripts it seems) should do so only if /selinux exists,
so that no error message is shown and the user is not alarmed if /selinux
does not exist.