prelink and yum conflict

Jeff Johnson n3npq at nc.rr.com
Tue Oct 12 14:03:31 UTC 2004


Jeff Johnson wrote:

>
> Not so much irony as difficult coordination. Compiling "rpm_script_t" 
> into rpm is
> gonna be difficult coordination, and now that there are two behaviors, 
> support
> is gonna get messy too.
>
> I'm open for better ideas, would like to have the choice of 
> "rpm_script_t" exec type in libselinux
> even though mechanism is of necessity in rpm.
>
> How about a simple routine, I pass the interpreter (i.e. "/bin/sh" or 
> "/sbin/ldconfig"), and
> libselinux gives me the IDENTITY:ROLE:TYPE to set.
>
> Even better, rpm will fork, then give libselinux argv[0] before doing 
> execve. Then libselinux
> can do whatever it wants.
>
> You can have argv, not just argv[0] if you want too. ;-)


Better still, how about libselinux_execve() clone. no reason why libselinux
should not do the execve as well afaict.

73 de Jeff





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