Re: libcap-ng update coming to rawhide

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On Thursday, November 19, 2020 8:32:38 PM EST Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 14:32 -0500, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > On Thursday, November 12, 2020 2:45:41 PM EST Steve Grubb wrote:
> > The new libcap-ng has been built into rawhide.
> 
> ...and it does break gnome-keyring, and it also breaks cifs-utils (so
> you can't mount CIFS/SMB shares), as per this upstream bug report:
> 
> https://github.com/stevegrubb/libcap-ng/issues/21

OK. I also see something about VPN openconnect. I'm hoping that's all the 
major pieces.
 
> whose reporter also noted what looks like a valid problem in your
> gnome-keyring fix.

For other distributions, yes. Worked fine on Fedora. A fixed pull request has 
positive comments from the person spotting the issue on another distribution.

> Was it really necessary to build this when you *knew* a major package
> did not work with it? Did you talk to the Workstation folks about
> getting the patch applied to gnome-keyring?

A new package has been pushed that blocks reporting error codes for changing 
bounding sets. If this checks good, I think I can use that refactored code to 
syslog which programs are not using capabilities correctly. But at some point 
in the future, we need to allow real error codes again.

-Steve


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