[DSE-User] dpkg tries create selinux/context.dpgk-new and fails

[Gijs Hillenius]

On 24 Jul 2009, Russell Coker wrote:

>>  dpkg -c dspam-3.9.0 ALPHA2-1 i386.deb
>>
>> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-07-23 09:23 ./selinux/
>> -rw-rw-rw- root/root         0 2009-06-20 15:29 ./selinux/context

> That package is broken.  No package should ever contain the 
> file /selinux/context.  /selinux is a mount point for a virtual filesystem.
>
> How did it get to contain that file?

I think that was placed in there because I'm using checkinstall -D to
create the debian package. I see here

http://www.lysium.de/blog/index.php?/archives/5-Checkinstall-and-SELinux.html

that the combination of checkinstall and selinux can cause (other)
unexpected results.

thanks, so far




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