On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 06:16 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote: > > Perhaps the selinux-policy package should be split into an > > selinux-policy and selinux-policy-devel package, with the -devel > > package being needed for building new policy/modules, and the base > > policy package containing just the stuff needed for regular runtime > > usage? > > > > I suggest this because I just tried building a policy module in mock > > with the new minimal environment and it fell over because building > > policy modules requires m4, which is not in the minimal environment. > > So m4 needs adding as a dep of selinux-policy (it's referenced from > > /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/Makefile), and this is really a > > devel-specific package that shouldn't be needed by most people, hence > > splitting off a -devel subpackage and adding the dep to that makes > > more sense. The -devel package could also have a dep on checkpolicy, > > which would be nice... > > > We have gone back and forth on this one. The original idea was to make > it easier for people to build custom policy and not have to go looking > for this package. Well that's OK but it really should have deps on m4 and checkpolicy then, since both are needed for building custom policy. Paul. -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list
