46.1. Introduction

46.1. Introduction

In earlier releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux it was necessary to install the selinux-policy-targeted-sources packages and then to create a local.te file in the /etc/selinux/targeted/src/policy/domains/misc directory. You could use the audit2allow utility to translate the AVC messages into allow rules, and then rebuild and reload the policy.

The problem with this was that every time a new policy package was released it would have to execute the Makefile in order to try to keep the local policy.

In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, this process has been completely revised. The "sources" rpm packages have been completely removed, and policy packages are treated more like the kernel. To look at the sources used to build the policy, you need to install the source rpm, selinux-policy-XYZ.src.rpm. A further package, selinux-policy-devel, has also been added, which provides further customization functionality.


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