Bug 1932650
| Summary: | add python38-libselinux | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Reporter: | Lark Gordon <lagordon> |
| Component: | distribution | Assignee: | Tomas Orsava <torsava> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 8.4 | CC: | cstratak, frush, jens.viebig, jwboyer, list, mark.faine, maxwell, python-maint, torsava |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Flags: | pm-rhel:
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
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| Last Closed: | 2021-03-31 10:29:26 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Lark Gordon
2021-02-24 20:29:48 UTC
Hi Lark, I see that the customer "want[s] to use the latest python and still be able to use selinux enforcing." Selinux enforcing works with Python 3.8 already. A python38-libselinux package is not necessary for selinux enforcing to work. The python3-libselinux package that we provide contains Python 3.6 SELinux bindings for developing SELinux applications. Is is not feasible to ship the libselinux Python bindings for other alternative Python stacks, so we don't provide python38-libselinux. We recommend to use Python 3.6 or Platform-Python to run Ansible. https://www.ansible.com/blog/integrating-ansible-and-red-hat-enterprise-linux-8-beta As someone who has to deal with these issues all the time and has been working to resolve this issue for a while, after so much searching, this is a very disappointing response. Now that ansible-core in RHEL 8.6 depends on python38 and sets it as the default python binary, I think this bug should be reopened and a solution reconsidered Let me second the call that this bug should be reopened. Ansible-core 2.12.2 on EL 8.6 requires python 3.8, and therefore a python38-libselinux
# ansible --version
ansible [core 2.12.2]
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = ['/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible
ansible collection location = /root/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
executable location = /bin/ansible
python version = 3.8.12 (default, Apr 5 2022, 08:07:47) [GCC 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-10.0.1)]
jinja version = 2.10.3
libyaml = True
Example error:
TASK [ Set SELINUX Boolean ]
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'selinux'
fatal: [isxxt003.is.colostate.edu]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to import the required Python library (libselinux-python) on hostnames's Python /usr/bin/python3.8. Please read the module documentation and install it in the appropriate location. If the required library is installed, but Ansible is using the wrong Python interpreter, please consult the documentation on ansible_python_interpreter"}
Lack of this library will be a breaking change to ansible on hosts that are updated from 2.9 to 5.4.
We regularly triage new bugzillas but we don't go over the closed ones. If you have a new problem/request, open a new bugzilla, please. Stumbled on same issue, opened a new ticket: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2093589 I also opened a new ticket: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2093105 |