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Why do binary policies distributed with Fedora, such as /etc/selinux//policy/policy., and those I compile myself have different sizes and MD5 checksums?

April 26, 2017binary different distributed Fedora policies policy SELinux

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Why do binary policies distributed with Fedora, such as /etc/selinux//policy/policy., and those I compile myself have different sizes and MD5 checksums?

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When you install a policy package, pre-compiled binary policy files are put directly into /etc/selinux. The different build environments will make target files that have different sizes and MD5 checksums.