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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