Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Missing concise descriptions for rpm header tags (#1319)
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Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Missing concise descriptions for rpm header tags (#1319)
Like said, rpm has some support for packaging policies BUT nothing inside or outside rpm actually uses that data. So for all practical purposes, rpm has no special support for packaging policies, hence the Fedora style packaging. The partial support is a leftover from attempted policy support, which might some day be reimplemented in a different way, but there are no actual plans to do so. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/1319#issuecomment-673392751___ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint
Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Missing concise descriptions for rpm header tags (#1319)
The only meaningful reference I could find on packaging policies is
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/SELinux_Independent_Policy
Looking at memcached, the policy file is simply packaged as a sub-package of
the actual package
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/memcached/blob/6e70f59bdad0ba4cc1a1a7e5abc237d2e2f1c13a/f/memcached.spec#_120
with a bunch of `pre` and `post` actions.
But there is also an additional explicit dependency on the selinux sub-package
declared, `Requires: (%{name}-selinux if selinux-policy-targeted)` which poses
the question, what purpose does the header really have?
Is any of those headers actually being used in practice
I really appreciate getting a few answers to my questions, thanks! :+1:
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Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Missing concise descriptions for rpm header tags (#1319)
In other words, it simply means that rpm doesn't actually *do* anything with it. The only thing rpm does with SELinux is that on install, it queries the system policy for correct file contexts. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/1319#issuecomment-673282790___ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint
Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Missing concise descriptions for rpm header tags (#1319)
> The context tags are unused since rpm 4.6 or so. There's some support for > packaging SELinux policies in librpmbuild but no corresponding install-time > support. Could you elaborate a bit on what "install time support" exactly means? -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/1319#issuecomment-672806482___ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint
Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Missing concise descriptions for rpm header tags (#1319)
The context tags are unused since rpm 4.6 or so. There's some support for packaging SELinux policies in librpmbuild but no corresponding install-time support. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/1319#issuecomment-672766382___ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint
Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Missing concise descriptions for rpm header tags (#1319)
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[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Missing concise descriptions for rpm header tags (#1319)
In both
http://ftp.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-file-format-rpm-file-format.html
and the 4.15.1 release there are
```
{ "RPMTAG_FSCONTEXTS", "Fscontexts", RPMTAG_FSCONTEXTS, RPM_STRING_ARRAY_TYPE,
RPM_ARRAY_RETURN_TYPE, 1 },
{ "RPMTAG_RECONTEXTS", "Recontexts", RPMTAG_RECONTEXTS, RPM_STRING_ARRAY_TYPE,
RPM_ARRAY_RETURN_TYPE, 1 },
```
defined, but description is not very concise what they are.
Since I am looking into impl policy file support as part of
https://github.com/Richterrettich/rpm-rs/issues/18 and I would like to know if
the above are relevant to policies at all, and what they are (either way).
So far all I can see that is relevant for selinux is
```
{ "RPMTAG_POLICIES", "Policies", RPMTAG_POLICIES, RPM_STRING_ARRAY_TYPE,
RPM_ARRAY_RETURN_TYPE, 0 },
```
Could you shed some lights here?
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