Bug 740323 - Trac seems to use /var/lib/trac but it is not in the payload.
Summary: Trac seems to use /var/lib/trac but it is not in the payload.
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Status: CLOSED EOL
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: trac
Version: 23
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Gwyn Ciesla
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-09-21 16:05 UTC by Daniel Walsh
Modified: 2016-12-20 12:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-12-20 12:09:27 UTC
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Description Daniel Walsh 2011-09-21 16:05:24 UTC
Description of problem:

Putting it in the payload would allow us to label it with SELinux properly.
Do you know of SELinux issues with this package?

Comment 1 Paul Howarth 2011-09-22 08:04:04 UTC
The only mention I see of /var/lib/trac in the package is in the example configuration documentation from upstream:

# rpm -ql trac | xargs grep var/lib
/etc/trac/trac.ini:path = /var/lib/trac/doxygen
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/trac/wiki/default-pages/TracFastCgi:   FastCgiIpcDir /var/lib/apache2/fastcgi 
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/trac/wiki/default-pages/TracPlugins:FastCgiConfig -initial-env TRAC_ENV=/var/lib/trac -initial-env PYTHON_EGG_CACHE=/var/lib/trac/plugin-cache

Are you seeing it anywhere else?

The only SELinux issues I had when using trac with mod_fcgid were setting up file contexts for its data under /srv:

http://www.city-fan.org/tips/TracWithFastCGIonFedora

Comment 2 Paul Howarth 2011-09-22 08:09:41 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> # rpm -ql trac | xargs grep var/lib
> /etc/trac/trac.ini:path = /var/lib/trac/doxygen

Whoops, I missed that one: I haven't tried the doxygen support myself. I thought that was in an external plug-in...

Comment 3 Daniel Walsh 2011-09-22 12:55:59 UTC
Paul is there a standard directory to install trac data in that needs SELinux labels.  If so it would work better if this directory was included in the payload and we set up default labeling for it.

Currently the "Selinux is a pain" string that is going on in Fedora mail lists was caused by someone complaining about setting up trac with SELinux.

Comment 4 Paul Howarth 2011-09-22 13:28:28 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Paul is there a standard directory to install trac data in that needs SELinux
> labels.  If so it would work better if this directory was included in the
> payload and we set up default labeling for it.

There isn't really one. The upstream documentation (e.g. http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracInstall#CreatingaProjectEnvironment) just uses "/path/to/myproject".

> Currently the "Selinux is a pain" string that is going on in Fedora mail lists
> was caused by someone complaining about setting up trac with SELinux.

I think adding SELinux context info in the trac README.fedora is probably the best we can do. However, there are many ways of running trac (e.g. it includes its own cut-down web server, which is one option, then there's apache with WSGI or apache with mod_fcgid etc.).

Or maybe there could be sample set-up included that supported multiple instances and used say apache with WSGI and had environments under /var/lib/trac/site{1,2,3} etc. and then there could be default contexts for those directories?

Comment 5 Daniel Walsh 2011-09-22 15:18:19 UTC
Yes I would prefer the sample setup, so we can get consistency. Upstream can have all the flexibility it wants but we can package it in a way that makes documentation and security easier.

Comment 6 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 15:52:50 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

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Comment 8 Jan Kurik 2015-07-15 15:14:02 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle.
Changing version to '23'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 23 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 23 End Of Life. Thank you.)

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Comment 10 Fedora End Of Life 2016-12-20 12:09:27 UTC
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