Bug#506917: pbuilder does not work correctly with selinux if selinux-utils is not installed

Junichi Uekawa dancer at netfort.gr.jp
Wed Nov 26 01:11:53 UTC 2008


Hi,


> Some suggested solutions:
> - Set selinux-utils as dependency for pbuilder
> - Mount /selinux always if it is present (ignoring /usr/sbin/selinuxenabled)
> - Always try to mount /selinux (even ignoring the presence of /selinux on the real root fs)
>   I'm not sure what mount will do if you try to call "mount -t selinuxfs /selinux", but
>   I would expect it to fail if the kernel has no selinux support. I'm also not sure
>   about possible side effects.
> - Add a hint to the documentation for users who encounter similar problems.


Is 'not installing selinux-utils' an exception or the norm?  I think
it should be fixed by documenting if it's something exceptional.


regards,
	junichi
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