Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 140981
/selinux is not allowed by the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:55 EST
filesystem-2.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEROOTFILESYSTEM "Applications must never create or require special files or subdirectories in the root directory. Other locations in the FHS hierarchy provide more than enough flexibility for any package." warning: filesystem-2.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2 Name : filesystem Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 2.3.0 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 1 Build Date: Thu 12 Aug 2004 11:02:09 AM MDT Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: thor.perf.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: filesystem-2.3.0-1.src.rpm Size : 0 License: Public Domain Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed 20 Oct 2004 10:13:43 AM MDT, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2 Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> Summary : The basic directory layout for a Linux system. Description : The filesystem package is one of the basic packages that is installed on a Red Hat Linux system. Filesystem contains the basic directory layout for a Linux operating system, including the correct permissions for the directories. /bin /boot /etc /home /initrd /lib /media /mnt /opt /proc /root /sbin /selinux <<-------- Not standard /srv /sys /tmp /usr /var I'm sure this bug will be closed but there should be a reason as there appears to be no discussion about it on the FHS mail-lists.
Fixing this involves convincing the upstream SELinux maintainers otherwise.
SELinux isn't an "application"; it's part of the OS, and the OS can create any paths it wants to: "Distributions should not create new directories in the root hierarchy without extremely careful consideration of the consequences including for application portability." There's no application portability concerns, thus no issue. But it would be useful to standardize /selinux in the upstream FHS.