Re: [PATCH] README: add much useful information

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On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 11:26:15AM +0200, Nicolas Iooss wrote:
> * Add SELinux logo
> * Add a link to Travis-CI
> * Add a link to lore.kernel.org archive
> * Document that SELinux is packaged in several distributions, providing
>   links to policycoreutils package (this package requires libsemanage,
>   libselinux, libsepol, etc. so if it is packaged, most sub-projects
>   have to also be)
> * Make Fedora install command readable on GitHub without scrolling
>   horizontally and update it
> * Split installed packaged between the dependencies for the "main"
>   libraries and programs, and the bindings
> 
>   - The install command line has been tested using a container from
>     image fedora:31
> 
> * Document Debian dependencies
> 
>   - The install command line has been tested using a container from
>     image debian:10
> 
> * Document running `make test` with `./scripts/env_use_destdir`
> * Introduce "macOS" section for instructions specific to macOS.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

> ---
> 
> The rendered README is currently available on my GitHub repo:
> https://github.com/fishilico/selinux/blob/wip/README.md
> 
>  README.md | 95 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 92 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
> index 974280f9d14f..f3257ef52d21 100644
> --- a/README.md
> +++ b/README.md
> @@ -1,22 +1,107 @@
>  SELinux Userspace
>  =================
>  
> +![SELinux logo](https://github.com/SELinuxProject.png)
> +[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/SELinuxProject/selinux.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/SELinuxProject/selinux)
> +
>  Please submit all bug reports and patches to <selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
>  
>  Subscribe by sending "subscribe selinux" in the body of an email
>  to <majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
>  
> +Archive of this mailing list is available on https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/.
> +
> +
>  Installation
>  ------------
>  
> -Build dependencies on Fedora:
> +SELinux libraries and tools are packaged in several Linux distributions:
> +
> +* Alpine Linux (https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/testing/x86/policycoreutils)
> +* Arch Linux User Repository (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/policycoreutils/)
> +* Buildroot (https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/tree/package/policycoreutils)
> +* Debian and Ubuntu (https://packages.debian.org/sid/policycoreutils)
> +* Gentoo (https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-apps/policycoreutils)
> +* RHEL and Fedora (https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/policycoreutils)
> +* Yocto Project (http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-selinux/tree/recipes-security/selinux)
> +* and many more (https://repology.org/project/policycoreutils/versions)
> +
> +
> +Building and testing
> +--------------------
>  
> -    yum install audit-libs-devel bison bzip2-devel dbus-devel dbus-glib-devel flex flex-devel flex-static glib2-devel libcap-devel libcap-ng-devel pam-devel pcre-devel python3-devel python3-setools swig xmlto redhat-rpm-config
> +Build dependencies on Fedora:
>  
> +```sh
> +# For C libraries and programs
> +dnf install \
> +    audit-libs-devel \
> +    bison \
> +    bzip2-devel \
> +    CUnit-devel \
> +    diffutils \
> +    flex \
> +    gcc \
> +    gettext \
> +    glib2-devel \
> +    make \
> +    libcap-devel \
> +    libcap-ng-devel \
> +    pam-devel \
> +    pcre-devel \
> +    xmlto
> +
> +# For Python and Ruby bindings
> +dnf install \
> +    python3-devel \
> +    ruby-devel \
> +    swig
> +```
> +
> +Build dependencies on Debian:
> +
> +```sh
> +# For C libraries and programs
> +apt-get install --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests \
> +    bison \
> +    flex \
> +    gawk \
> +    gcc \
> +    gettext \
> +    make \
> +    libaudit-dev \
> +    libbz2-dev \
> +    libcap-dev \
> +    libcap-ng-dev \
> +    libcunit1-dev \
> +    libglib2.0-dev \
> +    libpcre3-dev \
> +    pkgconf \
> +    python3 \
> +    python3-distutils \
> +    systemd \
> +    xmlto
> +
> +# For Python and Ruby bindings
> +apt-get install --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests \
> +    python3-dev \
> +    ruby-dev \
> +    swig
> +```
>  
>  To build and install everything under a private directory, run:
>  
> -    make DESTDIR=~/obj install install-pywrap
> +    make clean distclean
> +
> +    make DESTDIR=~/obj install install-rubywrap install-pywrap
> +
> +To run tests with the built libraries and programs, several paths (relative to `$DESTDIR`) need to be added to variables `$LD_LIBRARY_PATH`, `$PATH` and `$PYTHONPATH`.
> +This can be done using [./scripts/env_use_destdir](./scripts/env_use_destdir):
> +
> +    DESTDIR=~/obj ./scripts/env_use_destdir make test
> +
> +Some tests require the reference policy to be installed (for example in `python/sepolgen`).
> +In order to run these ones, instructions similar to the ones in section `install` of [./.travis.yml](./.travis.yml) can be executed.
>  
>  To install as the default system libraries and binaries
>  (overwriting any previously installed ones - dangerous!),
> @@ -32,6 +117,10 @@ This may render your system unusable if the upstream SELinux userspace
>  lacks library functions or other dependencies relied upon by your
>  distribution.  If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.
>  
> +
> +macOS
> +-----
> +
>  To install libsepol on macOS (mainly for policy analysis):
>  
>      cd libsepol; make PREFIX=/usr/local install
> -- 
> 2.26.2
> 

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