[Fedora-livecd-list] Re: Unnecessary SELinux Failure Condition?

On 09/11/2009 04:47 PM, Jay Greguske wrote: > Hello, > > While using livecd-creator and poking around the code, I found a check > that I don't understand the reason for. livecd-creator will bail out if > the host has SELinux disabled and the kickstart file requests it be > enabled. Why is that? I would think that if SELinux was disabled but you > still had the policy available, that would be all you need to build a > properly labeled image. > > Out of curiosity I made changes to the code just to see what would > happen. I attached them to this mail for reference, NOT as proposed > changes to be applied to the livecd-tools code. On an F10 system with > SELinux disabled I was able to build a working livecd image that I could > boot and play around in. SELinux was being enforced in the image too. I > was able to do this with a RHEL 5 kernel as well, just to see if maybe > something had changed with an earlier version of SELinux. > > Perhaps the failure condition is no longer necessary? > > Thanks in advance, > - Jay > Yes I think that is no longer necessary. And it should definitely be supported.