Re: SELinux issue (?)

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai welho com>]

On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Andre Costa wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> every once in a while, when I use rpm on my FC2, this pops up:
> 
> /etc/security/selinux/file_contexts: No such file or directory
> 
> It seems to be harmless, but, still, suggests me that I should fix
> something... should I just touch the above file? Should I put something
> special in it?

That happens at least on systems upgraded to FC2 from earlier versions (vs 
fresh install) because "policy" package doesn't get installed. Fix
by installing the policy package, additionally you'll probably want to 
disable SELinux by putting SELINUX=disabled to /etc/sysconfig/selinux.

I dunno what's the intended behavior, the error is easy enough to get rid
of but then I could imagine that on system where SELinux is enabled on
purpose you'd want to know if the file_contexts file suddenly has gone
missing. Anyway, this silences the error for the better or worse and
additionally removes the hardcoding of file_contexts path (which still is
present in rpm-head btw):

--- rpm-4.3.1/lib/rpmsx.c.fc        2004-08-14 22:07:27.417316686 
+0300
+++ rpm-4.3.1/lib/rpmsx.c       2004-08-14 22:30:02.579597168 +0300
@@ -327,11 +327,10 @@
 
 /*@-branchstate@*/
     if (fn == NULL)
-       fn = "/etc/security/selinux/file_contexts";
+       fn = rpmGetPath("%{?_install_file_context_path}", NULL);
 /*@=branchstate@*/
 
     if ((fp = fopen(fn, "r")) == NULL) {
-       perror(fn);
        return -1;
     }
 

	- Panu -