Re: SELinux userspace patches in hardened-dev?

Luis Ressel <[email protected]> Wed, 6 Aug 2014 12:10:06 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.gentoo.hardened
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On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:50:35 +0200
Amadeusz Sławiński <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 12:47:32 +0000
> Sven Vermeulen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all
> > 
> > Is it ok if I create a branch in the hardened-dev repo (called
> > "selinux-userland") which contains the patches for the various
> > SELinux userland packages we maintain?
> > 
> > Or would you prefer a different way to centrally manage the patches
> > (they sometimes become too large to be put in the ${FILESDIR} so I
> > moved towards a patchbundle)?
> > 
> > Wkr,
> > 	Sven Vermeulen
> > 
> 
> Are these only patches or packages?
> If only patches I think it's better to put them in separate
> repository. Mainly because hardened-dev is used for portage tree
> stuff and some other parts of hardened (proj/hardened-gccpatchset.git
> proj/hardened-patchset.git) keep patches separately.
> Perhaps hardened-selinuxpatchset?
> 
> Amadeusz
> 
> 

I'd rather not have to keep track of yet another repository. What's
wrong with a branch? Using "git checkout --orphan newbranch", one can
create completely independent branches.


Regards,
Luis ressel

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