[Buildroot] [PATCH 05/17] checkpolicy: new package

[Clayton Shotwell]

Thomas,

Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote on 09/06/2013 
12:56:09 PM:
> Is a target variant of this package really needed? In the context of
> Buildroot and cross-compilation, I would expect the policy to be
> written on the development machine, the compilation to happen on the
> development machine, and only the resulting binary copied 
> to the target.
> 
> We generally don't support "development" on the target, 
> and we expect
> the system generated by Buildroot to be ready to use. I am
> not familiar
> with SELinux at all, but my understanding is that this 
> Buildroot policy
> should translate into just the SELinux binary policy to be
> installed on
> the target, the compiler being kept on the host.

Very good point and I agree completely.  This package is used to compile 
the SELinux policy from source and that should only be done on the host. I 
will go ahead and remove the target build commands and Config.in file to 
keep this a host only utility. 

> > +CHECKPOLICY_SITE = http://userspace.selinuxproject.org/
> releases/20130423/
> > +CHECKPOLICY_LICENSE = GPLv2
> 
> Really GPLv2, not GPLv2+ ?

Yes, just GPLv2 per most of the headers.  Several source files contain no 
license information and there are a couple that contain a LGPLv2.1+.  I am 
going to consider everything under the GPLv2 since that is the most 
restrictive license. 

Thanks,
Clayton

Clayton Shotwell
Software Engineer
clshotwe at rockwellcollins.com
www.rockwellcollins.com 


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