Re: selinux-policy-devel?

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Daniel J Walsh wrote:
Paul Howarth wrote:
Paul Howarth wrote:
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.

I see from today's rawhide report that a -devel package has been split out :-)

Is this going to happen in FC5 with the next update too?

Paul.
Probably, although it really requires some coordination between policycoreutils, so that audit2allow will tell you to install it if
you want to build a loadable reference module.

Some other fixes are also going into tonights rawhide, to fix the requires. See we do listen to the user community. :^)

Thanks. If you eventually decide not to split off -devel for FC5, would you please add "Provides: selinux-policy-devel" to the selinux-policy package so that the same buildreq of selinux-policy-devel can be used for FC5 and development packages that include policy modules?

Paul.

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