On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 06:42 +0200, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 14:07 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
>> I know its way late but I'd like to add a new SELinux concept to the F9
>> kernels. Its going to be a backport of a couple of my changesets headed
>> upstream
>
> As a cranky release engineering person, no no no no no no
>
> We have a feature freeze for a reason, the kernel doesn't get a blank
> check to get past it. If it was that important, it would have been done
> in time for the freeze. The next release is in six months, so it's not
> like it's that long to have to wait
>
I can go either way whether this goes in or not. The userspace updates
are done, The only change would be to modify some tools to quickly build
a policy module to make a domain permissive.
Permissive domains is a great new feature though:
Yes, and it'll still be a great new feature for Fedora 10. We have
deadlines. When we don't stick to them, they lead to releases slippage.
Jeremy