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Fedora Policy and Infrstructure Report
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University of Toronto ☛ My machines versus the Fedora selinux-policy-targeted package
I upgrade Fedora on my office and home workstations through an online upgrade with dnf, and as part of this I read (or at least scan) DNF's output to look for problems. Usually this goes okay, but DNF5 has a general problem with script output and when I did a test upgrade from Fedora 41 to Fedora 42 on a virtual machine, it generated a huge amount of repeated output from a script run by selinux-policy-targeted, repeatedly reporting "Old compiled fcontext format, skipping" for various .bin files in /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files. The volume of output made the rest of DNF's output essentially unreadable. I would like to avoid this when I actually upgrade my office and home workstations to Fedora 42 (which I still haven't done, partly because of this issue).
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Kevin Fenzi: Misc infra bits from 2nd week of sept 2025
Welcome to saturday! Another week gone by. For some reason, for me at least, this week marked the end of the quiet of the previous few. Seemed like lots of people got back from summer vacations and wanted to discuss their new plan or idea. That's wonderful to see, but also makes for a busy week of replying, pondering and discussing.