F23 System Wide Change: SELinux policy store migration

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 12.06.15 19:00, Miroslav Grepl (mgrepl at redhat.com) wrote:

> On 06/12/2015 12:17 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > On Thu, 11.06.15 06:51, Jan Kurik (jkurik at redhat.com) wrote:
> > 
> >> = Proposed System Wide Change: SELinux policy store migration =
> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SELinuxPolicyStoreMigration
> > 
> > I cannot make sense of this with my limited selinux knowledge, could
> > you please elaborate on this on the changes page for people like me
> > who only have a superficial understanding of selinux?
> 
> Yeap, we are working on it.
> 
> Basically the binary policy file
> (/etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.29) loaded to kernel is built from
> SELinux policy modules. These modules are currently located in
> /etc/selinux/targeted/modules and we call it as a "module store". This
> store is now moved to /var/lib/selinux/targeted/modules. This only
> affects tools like semanage, semodule which are used for a policy
> manipulation. So we are able to boot without /var also from SELinux
> point of view.

Why /var and not /usr?

If these module files are shipped with RPMs as vendor versions they
belong in /usr, no?

What makes this approproate for moving them to /var?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat