Re: [PATCH] spec: call semanage in posttrans not in post

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On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 06:40:32PM +0200, Uri Lublin wrote:
> It can happen that selinux-policy (targeted) is installed only after
> spice-streaming-agent (upon system installation). In that case
> running semanage in post scriptlet will fail.
> 
> In posttrans all packages are already installed, so it should be
> safe to call semanage at that point.
> 
> rhbz#1647789
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uri Lublin <uril@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> In a first patch I wrote I also added a condition that
> checks if selinuxenabled. If people feel it's better
> I'll send a V2 with it.
> 
> ---
>  spice-streaming-agent.spec.in | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/spice-streaming-agent.spec.in b/spice-streaming-agent.spec.in
> index 5a06e89..6b5ac22 100644
> --- a/spice-streaming-agent.spec.in
> +++ b/spice-streaming-agent.spec.in
> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ BuildRequires:  catch-devel
>  BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(udev)
>  # we need /usr/sbin/semanage program which is available on different
>  # packages depending on distribution
> -Requires(post): /usr/sbin/semanage
> +Requires(posttrans): /usr/sbin/semanage
>  Requires(postun): /usr/sbin/semanage
>  
>  %description
> @@ -45,7 +45,9 @@ if test -d "%{buildroot}/%{_libdir}/%{name}/plugins"; then
>      find %{buildroot}/%{_libdir}/%{name}/plugins -name '*.la' -delete
>  fi
>  
> -%post
> +# See rhbz#1647789 - call semanage in posttrans, not in post
> +# and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Scriptlets
> +%posttrans
>  semanage fcontext -a -t xserver_exec_t %{_bindir}/spice-streaming-agent 2>/dev/null || :
>  restorecon %{_bindir}/spice-streaming-agent || :

I'm curious why these commands are present at all ? The normal way to deal
with this would be to file a bug against the SELinux policy to explicitly
add the spice-streaming-agent binary to the default policy, so that RPM
will set the correct context at install time.

Regards,
Daniel
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