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What is the relationship between the policy and policy-sources packages?

April 26, 2017Packages policy relationship

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What is the relationship between the policy and policy-sources packages?

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The policy package is a requirement for a working SELinux installation, while policy-sources is required if you want to customize the default policy. The policy package has the minimum files necessary for defining the SELinux security policy. It is kept trimmed down in size to support a minimal install footprint. The policy-sources package contains the source definitions in /etc/security/selinux/src that are required to create the files /etc/security/selinux/file_contexts and /etc/security/selinux/policy.. is the version number of the policy. Choosing which packages to install is based on the type of installation. If you are going to use only the default security policy defined by the Fedora Core developers, you only need the policy package. If you want to customize your security policy in any way, or otherwise want to run setools, you need to install policy-sources. Installing or updating the policy package loads the new policy after it installs the files. Similarly