Arch Linux

Berticus

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Registered: 2008-06-11

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Is custom kernel and SELinux possible?

Today I looked up archlinux on youtube because someone made a comment about the copious amounts of videos there. I saw some really impressive boot times and am thinking I want to try that out myself. While I'm not new to compiling the linux kernel (former Gentoo user), I am new to SELinux, which I've been considering about adding on. So I was wondering, if I install SELinux through pacman, will it patch my kernel? Or do I need to add that on myself?

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Re: Is custom kernel and SELinux possible?

Searching for selinux with pacman reveals a lot of different SELinux packages, including an SELinux kernel. So I don't really understand what you mean by installing SELinux through pacman -- use SELinux packages, including the SELinux kernel package, or else build your own with SELinux, use selinux-kernel26 for pointers

Berticus

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 731

Re: Is custom kernel and SELinux possible?

Well yeah, what I meant was if I installed selinux-kernel26. Like if I were to do:

Pacman -S selinux-kernel26

, would that replace my custom built kernel or would that apply the patches?