Re: coreutils: selinux is nearly ready: status

[Jim Meyering]

"Christopher J. PeBenito" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 19:00 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> I've been spending little bits of time over the last few months getting
>> coreutils' SELinux into shape.  These changes started off based on Red
>> Hat patches from six months ago.  Initially it was all in a mercurial
>> repository based on a snapshot of coreutils CVS.  Then coreutils
>> development switched to git, and only recently have I merged most of
>> the hg-based deltas into the new repository.  It's on a branch named
>> "selinux".
>>
>> Here is the current state:
>>
>>   http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=selinux
>>
>> Here are some of the remaining tasks:
>>
>>   - add runcon (should be quick)
>>   - add many more SELinux-specific tests
>>   - fix at least one test (tests/cp/cp-a-selinux is in-progress
>>       and known to fail -- but I know a couple ways to fix it)
>>   - documentation
>>   - make sure that any newer selinux-related changes from Red Hat
>>       (or any other distribution) are included
>
> Any updates on this?

Funny you should ask now.  A few hours ago I released what should be
the final pre-SELinux snapshot of upstream coreutils:

    http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.9+.tar.gz

Tomorrow, I expect to merge the changes from the selinux branch onto
the trunk.  Then, those will start appearing in snapshots, and eventually
in coreutils-6.10.