[refpolicy] number of categories

Christopher J. PeBenito cpebenito at tresys.com
Mon Jun 28 08:08:59 CDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 15:17 +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> It seems that everyone is using 1024 categories (Fedora/RHEL counts as "almost 
> everyone" and Debian counts as "almost everyone else").
> 
> I think it's the best thing to have the upstream policy defaults match what is 
> being most commonly used when there is no good reason to do otherwise, and as 
> the number of categories is entirely arbitrary there can't be a good reason to 
> do otherwise.
> 
> Please apply a patch like the attached one.  If nothing else it will save 
> about 50 lines from each distribution's patch.

Dropped unrelated hunks.  Otherwise merged.

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Chris PeBenito
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