An update on my kernel "secnext" builds and testing

Hello all, A while back I started building Fedora Rawhide kernels with the selinux/next and audit/next branches applied, making them available via a Fedora COPR repository. My hope was that this would help make it easier for people to test/try the patches we had queued up for the next merge window and also enable some additional work to do fully automated testing of the selinux/next and audit/next trees. While I'm not sure how many people besides myself run the secnext kernel builds on their test systems, I have finally gotten all the pieces in place so that we have fully automated testing for the {selinux,audit}/next trees. It may have taken almost four years, but better late than never :) For those of you who are interested, the test results are sent to the mailing list below (yes, it's a Google group, and no you don't need to have a Google account). The build notifications and test results are sent to a separate list simply because I didn't want to spam the main mailing lists. * https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kernel-secnext In addition, I've run into enough problems with COPR over the years that I've started to build my own kernel packages from the secnext SRPMs. While I really like the idea of COPR, the current implementation is poorly suited for building kernel packages; perhaps it will improve in the future, but it isn't a good solution now. I will still keep submitting kernel builds to COPR, so those who want to use the secnext kernels from there will continue to have that as a valid repository, but I'm unlikely to spend any significant time working to resolve COPR specific build problems. For those who want to try the kernel packages that I'm building, you can find more information at the link below: * https://repo.paul-moore.com At some point in the future I would like to also build secnext kernels for other distros, but I need to spend a little bit of time learning the "proper" way to patch and build kernel packages for those other distros first. I'm leaning towards Debian as the first non-Fedora distro, but if anyone has a favorite distro, with good SELinux/audit support, please let me know. -Paul -- paul moore www.paul-moore.com