[yocto] [meta-selinux][PATCH 0/5] Remove python dependency from refpol.

Joe MacDonald joe at deserted.net
Wed Oct 9 05:23:19 PDT 2013


[[meta-selinux][PATCH 0/5] Remove python dependency from refpol.] On 13.10.09 (Wed 03:02) flihp at longhaul.twobit.us wrote:

> The reference policy package currently pulls in a lot of python stuff
> that isn't strictly necessary to boot an SELinux system and load a
> policy. This is caused by the mix of python and C utilities in
> policycoreutils.
> 
> This patch set breaks the policycoreutils recipe up into multiple
> packages, one for each utility. In this way we can have the refpol etc
> pull in only the utilities necessary for normal operation. This happens
> to be only the utilities written in C and thus we can remove python
> completely in a minimal image.
> 
> I've attempted to localize these changes as much as possible so changes
> in this patchset outside of the policycoreutils recipe are few. An
> example image reicpe is added to demonstrate a minimal image with only
> the utilities required to load a policy and manipulate the policy store
> (add / remove policy modules) at runtime.

Hey Philip,

The patches never arrived in my mailbox and I don't see them in
patchworks.  Can you re-send, please?

-- 
-Joe MacDonald.
:wq
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