[Bug 1645172] Review Request: firejail - Linux namespaces sandbox program

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1645172



--- Comment #10 from Ondrej Dubaj <odubaj@xxxxxxxxxx> ---
Thank you for your comments.

(In reply to Jaroslav Škarvada from comment #9)
> (In reply to dan.cermak from comment #8)
> Thanks for comments.
> 
> > Thanks for packaging firejail!
> > 
> > I have some comments concerning the spec file:
> > 
> > - Your spec file does not mention a special license, which afaik means that
> > MIT is going to be assumed. However, you seem to have taken the spec from
> > the firejail repository, which means that it is GPLv2 licensed and changing
> > the license to MIT is definitely problematic.
> > 
> This is good point. I think this could be resolved by asking firejail
> authors whether we could reuse their SPEC file under MIT. If not there
> should be explicit comment stating that the spec file is licensed under
> GPLv2+. 
> 

Is it then OK just to leave a comment? Or it should be better to ask upstream?

> 
> > - The flags to the configure step:
> > > %configure --disable-userns --disable-contrib-install
> > were (judging from the git log) added for compatibility reasons with
> > RHEL/CentOS. The two disable flags could maybe be dropped for Fedora (not
> > sure if installing contrib is useful though).
> >
> No idea about it. I would also try to drop it.
> 
> > - The %files section should not add man pages with hardcoded extensions,
> > since it could be changed without further notice. So this:
> > > %{_mandir}/man5/%{name}-login.5.gz
> > > %{_mandir}/man5/%{name}-profile.5.gz
> > > %{_mandir}/man5/%{name}-users.5.gz
> > should become this:
> > > %{_mandir}/man5/%{name}-login.5.*
> > > %{_mandir}/man5/%{name}-profile.5.*
> > > %{_mandir}/man5/%{name}-users.5.*
> >
> Valid: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Manpages
> 
> > - Minor: you can get a tarball with a better name from github via this url:
> > > Source0:        %{URL}/archive/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
> >
> Good point.
>  
> > - I am not completely sure about the rules when a package should own a
> > directory, but I think it might be necessary for the spec to explicitly own
> > the following:
> > > %dir %{_libdir}/%{name}
> Not needed, it's already owned, check rpmls.
> 
> > > %dir %{_datadir}/doc/%{name}
> owned by %doc macro
> 
> > > %dir %{_datarootdir}/bash-completion/completions
> > (really not sure about the last one, there was a discussion in the previous
> > packaging request of firejail:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301286)
> >
> IMHO no, because it's already owned by filesystem:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:
> Guidelines#File_and_Directory_Ownership
> 
> But IMHO the path should be fixed to /etc/bash_completion.d

I probbaly do not understand, how could I package something that does not exist
in my buildroot?

> 
> > - Firejail has a testsuite, it can be run with make test (there is also a
> > more "destructive" test suite, which messes with the OS' settings, wouldn't
> > advise to use that one). It requires at least expect to be installed. It
> > seems to test some basic capabilities of firejail and also some applications
> > and their behavior (like firefox, thunderbird, dig, telnet, etc.). I have
> > however not taken an in depth look at it, for instance I am not really sure
> > if it returns a non-zero value on test failure. I am also not sure whether
> > it makes sense to test all the applications requiring X to be running
> > (probably not). Nevertheless, running at least some basic tests would be
> > desirable.
> 
> Personally I probably wouldn't run the tests in the form there are available
> now, because they seems like integration tests to me (I didn't check
> thoroughly). They have a lot of dependencies, which are in fact build time
> dependencies, but it could slow down or even break the build. Also it seems
> there are bundled binaries used in the tests you shouldn't definitely run in
> the build time, e.g. test/filters/memwrexe. Well, there is source for it,
> but I cannot find recipe to build it. But of course this could be reported
> upstream, e.g. request to provide some minimal test target.

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