Information about the package, selinux-policy, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The selinux-policy package is designed for, SELinux policy configuration.
Package Name:
selinux-policy
Summary:
SELinux policy configuration
Description:
SELinux Reference Policy - modular. Based off of reference policy: Checked out revision 2.20091117
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
3.7.19
Release:
307el6_9.3
Size:
9.0 M
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
updates
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the selinux-policy package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install selinux-policy
This command will install selinux-policy on the server.
yum remove selinux-policy
This command will un-install selinux-policy on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove selinux-policy, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove selinux-policy
This command will un-install selinux-policy on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove selinux-policy when using the -y flag.
yum update selinux-policy
This command will update selinux-policy to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove selinux-policy, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update selinux-policy
This command will update selinux-policy to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove selinux-policy when using the -y flag.
yum info selinux-policy
This command will show you core information about the selinux-policy package.
yum deplist selinux-policy
This command will show you the dependencies for selinux-policy. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update selinux-policy
This command will check if there is an update waiting on selinux-policy. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.