The most interesting tidbit is a new tool cap-audit. Unfortunatly cap-audit requires clang, bpftool, libbpf, and libaudit. I haven't had time to check it out and wire it up yet. https://github.com/stevegrubb/libcap-ng/releases/tag/v0.9
Also noteworthy. Author has decided to stop delivering dist format tarballs, hence the need for autoreconf. Also, one of the original source tarball URLs won't be used more according to author. * Add patchset, removing SWIG now that we have to autoreconf it. Also fix some other minor issues. Signed-off-by: Christian Melki <[email protected]> --- ...0001-Makefile.am-Remove-bindings-dir.patch | 65 +++++++++++++++++++ patches/libcap-ng-0.9/autogen.sh | 1 + patches/libcap-ng-0.9/series | 4 ++ rules/libcap-ng.make | 11 ++-- 4 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) create mode 100644 patches/libcap-ng-0.9/0001-Makefile.am-Remove-bindings-dir.patch create mode 120000 patches/libcap-ng-0.9/autogen.sh create mode 100644 patches/libcap-ng-0.9/series diff --git a/patches/libcap-ng-0.9/0001-Makefile.am-Remove-bindings-dir.patch b/patches/libcap-ng-0.9/0001-Makefile.am-Remove-bindings-dir.patch new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7d1d002b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/patches/libcap-ng-0.9/0001-Makefile.am-Remove-bindings-dir.patch @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +From: Christian Melki <[email protected]> +Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:20:39 +0100 +Subject: [PATCH] Makefile.am: Remove bindings dir. + +Author thought it would be a good idea to stop delivering libcap-ng in non-dist format. +So no more proper tarball releases with functioning configure scripts. +SWIG binding was causing autoreconf errors. + +* Add missing files. + +Signed-off-by: Christian Melki <[email protected]> +--- + Makefile.am | 3 --- + NEWS | 0 + bindings/src/Makefile.am | 4 ---- + configure.ac | 6 ------ + 4 files changed, 13 deletions(-) + create mode 100644 NEWS + +diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am +index 82976206de34..aec072a11e9d 100644 +--- a/Makefile.am ++++ b/Makefile.am +@@ -22,9 +22,6 @@ + # + ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 + SUBDIRS = src utils m4 docs +-if HAVE_SWIG +-SUBDIRS += bindings +-endif + EXTRA_DIST = ChangeLog AUTHORS README.md INSTALL COPYING COPYING.LIB \ + libcap-ng.spec autogen.sh + +diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS +new file mode 100644 +index 000000000000..e69de29bb2d1 +diff --git a/bindings/src/Makefile.am b/bindings/src/Makefile.am +index 301ed0fb8af5..626241c6328c 100644 +--- a/bindings/src/Makefile.am ++++ b/bindings/src/Makefile.am +@@ -19,7 +19,3 @@ + # Authors: + # Steve Grubb <[email protected]> + # +- +-EXTRA_DIST = capng_swig.i +-SWIG_SOURCES = capng_swig.i +-CONFIG_CLEAN_FILES = *.loT *.rej *.orig +diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac +index 45372108b92e..ed8a1ff34282 100644 +--- a/configure.ac ++++ b/configure.ac +@@ -208,12 +208,6 @@ if test x"${ac_cv_have_decl_PR_CAP_AMBIENT}" = x"no" ; then + fi + AM_CONDITIONAL(BUILD_LIBDROP_AMBIENT, test x"${ac_cv_have_decl_PR_CAP_AMBIENT}" = x"yes") + +-AC_CHECK_PROG(swig_found, swig, yes, no) +-if test x"${swig_found}" = x"no" ; then +- AC_MSG_WARN("Swig not found - python bindings will not be made") +-fi +-AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_SWIG, test x"${swig_found}" = x"yes") +- + withval="" + AC_MSG_CHECKING(whether to create python3 bindings) + AC_ARG_WITH(python3, diff --git a/patches/libcap-ng-0.9/autogen.sh b/patches/libcap-ng-0.9/autogen.sh new file mode 120000 index 000000000..9f8a4cb7d --- /dev/null +++ b/patches/libcap-ng-0.9/autogen.sh @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +../autogen.sh \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/patches/libcap-ng-0.9/series b/patches/libcap-ng-0.9/series new file mode 100644 index 000000000..581024abe --- /dev/null +++ b/patches/libcap-ng-0.9/series @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# generated by git-ptx-patches +#tag:base --start-number 1 +0001-Makefile.am-Remove-bindings-dir.patch +# e1618b784536819902b7fd66deca77ba - git-ptx-patches magic diff --git a/rules/libcap-ng.make b/rules/libcap-ng.make index 2a7059b7d..e5285aa17 100644 --- a/rules/libcap-ng.make +++ b/rules/libcap-ng.make @@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ PACKAGES-$(PTXCONF_LIBCAP_NG) += libcap-ng # # Paths and names # -LIBCAP_NG_VERSION := 0.8.5 -LIBCAP_NG_MD5 := 3c280d902b902f28caf3990e018fcd31 +LIBCAP_NG_VERSION := 0.9 +LIBCAP_NG_MD5 := abc6ba14f5b96041abe8e41c59aed7ed LIBCAP_NG := libcap-ng-$(LIBCAP_NG_VERSION) LIBCAP_NG_SUFFIX := tar.gz LIBCAP_NG_URL := \ - https://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/libcap-ng/$(LIBCAP_NG).$(LIBCAP_NG_SUFFIX) \ + https://github.com/stevegrubb/libcap-ng/archive/refs/tags/v$(LIBCAP_NG_VERSION).$(LIBCAP_NG_SUFFIX) \ https://sources.buildroot.net/libcap-ng/$(LIBCAP_NG).$(LIBCAP_NG_SUFFIX) LIBCAP_NG_SOURCE := $(SRCDIR)/$(LIBCAP_NG).$(LIBCAP_NG_SUFFIX) LIBCAP_NG_DIR := $(BUILDDIR)/$(LIBCAP_NG) @@ -34,12 +34,9 @@ LIBCAP_NG_LICENSE := LGPL-2.1-or-later AND GPL-2.0-or-later # LIBCAP_NG_CONF_TOOL := autoconf -LIBCAP_NG_CONF_ENV := \ - ac_cv_prog_swig_found=no - LIBCAP_NG_CONF_OPT := \ $(CROSS_AUTOCONF_USR) \ - --without-debug \ + --disable-cap-audit \ --without-warn \ --without-python3 -- 2.43.0
