From: guido@trentalancia.com (Guido Trentalancia)
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:02:44 +0200
Subject: [refpolicy] how to best deal with the move from bin to /usr/sbin
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To: refpolicy@oss.tresys.com
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Hello.

 > Many distributions want to get rid of /bin and /sbin and use /usr/bin
 > and usr/sbin/ respectively instead.

 > how to best deal with that?

 > do we add a file_contexts.subs_dist entry or edit all /bin /sbin entries
 > with (usr/)?

In my opinion, the file_contexts.subs_dist is not to be edited by 
Reference Policy, but only by individual distributions (in their private 
patches that will always exist to some extent) or by end-users.

It is provided by Reference Policy as an aid towards easier 
customization of binary locations and should contain very few entries 
(for example, if the are critical).

In that view, the addition of /etc/rc.d/init.d /etc/init.d alias is 
already in excess.

If you are sure that a given alternative base location is used by a 
given distribution, then perhaps you could add commented entries in 
file_contexts.subs_dist specifying the distribution using such 
alternative location...

 > How does Fedora deal with this?

Best regards,

Guido