Bug 948318
| Summary: | Texlive rpms create files not owned with any package, aren't removed when uninstalled and have wrong selinux context | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | Michal Trunecka <mtruneck> | ||||
| Component: | texlive | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Marek Haicman <mhaicman> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 7.0 | CC: | ebenes, ksrot, mhaicman, mmalik, mzember, riehecky, than | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | texlive-2012-35.20130427_r30134.el7 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||
| Last Closed: | 2015-11-19 11:09:42 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Description
Michal Trunecka
2013-04-04 15:05:02 UTC
Created attachment 731642 [details]
Files created by some of texlive-* rpms
(In reply to Michal Trunecka from comment #0) > Description of problem: > For example package texlive-xmltex-bin creates following files: > > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/xmltex.fmt > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/xmltex.log > > The files are not owned by any package, so they aren't removed when the > package was uninstalled. > > # rpm -qf /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/xmltex.fmt > file /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/xmltex.fmt is not owned by any package > > And the files have wrong selinux context: > # restorecon -Rv /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/xmltex.fmt > restorecon reset /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/xmltex.fmt context > unconfined_u:object_r:rpm_script_tmp_t:s0->unconfined_u:object_r: > tetex_data_t:s0 > what is wrong with the seliniux context? could you please add more infos? thanks After installing all texlive packages (texlive\*), e.g. these two files has the context rpm_script_tmp_t: # ls -laZ /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/xmltex* -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:rpm_script_tmp_t:SystemLow /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/xmltex.fmt -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:rpm_script_tmp_t:SystemLow /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/xmltex.log But that is obviously context used for temp files of rpm scripts. The correct context is tetex_data_t, which can be confirmed by restorecon tool: # restorecon -Rv /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/xmltex* restorecon reset /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/xmltex.fmt context unconfined_u:object_r:rpm_script_tmp_t:s0->unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 restorecon reset /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/xmltex.log context unconfined_u:object_r:rpm_script_tmp_t:s0->unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 It can be solved e.g. by running restorecon on the particular path at the end of the postinstall rpm script. This request was not resolved in time for the current release. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In the bug, apart from selinux contexts, files not owned by any package are also specified. On version texlive-2012-38.20130427_r30134.el7, these files(+dirs) relevant to texlive are non-owned by any rpm: /var/lib/texmf/web2c /var/lib/texmf/web2c/tex /var/lib/texmf/web2c/tex/tex.fmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/tex/tex.log /var/lib/texmf/web2c/metafont /var/lib/texmf/web2c/metafont/mf.base /var/lib/texmf/web2c/metafont/mf.log /var/lib/texmf/web2c/luatex /var/lib/texmf/web2c/luatex/lualatex.fmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/luatex/luatex.log /var/lib/texmf/web2c/luatex/dvilualatex.log /var/lib/texmf/web2c/luatex/lualatex.log /var/lib/texmf/web2c/luatex/dviluatex.log /var/lib/texmf/web2c/luatex/dviluatex.fmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/luatex/dvilualatex.fmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/luatex/luatex.fmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdftex.log /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/xmltex.log /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdfetex.log /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdfxmltex.log /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdftex.fmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/etex.log /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/latex.log /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/mptopdf.fmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/etex.fmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/xmltex.fmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/jadetex.log /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/jadetex.fmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdfxmltex.fmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdfjadetex.fmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/mptopdf.log /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdfetex.fmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.log /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdfjadetex.log /var/lib/texmf/web2c/xetex /var/lib/texmf/web2c/xetex/xetex.fmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/xetex/xetex.log /var/lib/texmf/web2c/xetex/xelatex.log /var/lib/texmf/web2c/xetex/xelatex.fmt /var/lib/texmf/ls-R But having files in /var/ directory is not a common practice in RHEL [these are OWNED files on machine with 1240 packages, 550 of them are texlive-*, rest basic server stuff - definitely not full install]: /var/cache/ldconfig/aux-cache /var/lib/logrotate.status /var/lib/plymouth/boot-duration /var/lib/rpm/Providename /var/lib/rpm/Dirnames /var/lib/rpm/Basenames /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 /var/lib/rpm/Name /var/lib/rpm/Requirename /var/lib/rpm/Sha1header /var/lib/rpm/Triggername /var/lib/rpm/Sigmd5 /var/lib/rpm/Installtid /var/lib/rpm/__db.002 /var/lib/rpm/Group /var/lib/rpm/Obsoletename /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname /var/lib/rpm/__db.003 /var/lib/rpm/Packages /var/lib/nfs/state /var/lib/nfs/etab /var/lib/nfs/rmtab /var/lib/nfs/xtab /var/lib/misc/postfix.aliasesdb-stamp /var/lib/systemd/random-seed /var/lib/systemd/catalog/database /var/spool/anacron/cron.monthly /var/spool/anacron/cron.weekly /var/spool/anacron/cron.daily /var/log/btmp /var/log/wtmp /var/log/tallylog /var/log/lastlog /var/db/Makefile That is 34 files. Rest of the files [269, not counting /var/lib/yum - thousands files there] are not owned. Based on this data, I would propose to not consider THIS part of bugreport as a bug. Could you please confirm my sentiment? Confirming that selinux contexts are fixed in version texlive-2012-38.20130427_r30134.el7 drwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 texmf -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/tex/tex.fmt -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/tex/tex.log -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/metafont/mf.base -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/metafont/mf.log -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/luatex/lualatex.fmt -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/luatex/luatex.log -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/luatex/dvilualatex.log -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/luatex/lualatex.log -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/luatex/dviluatex.log -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/luatex/dviluatex.fmt -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/luatex/dvilualatex.fmt -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/luatex/luatex.fmt -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdftex.log -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/xmltex.log -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdfetex.log -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdfxmltex.log -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdftex.fmt -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/etex.log -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/latex.log -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/mptopdf.fmt -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/etex.fmt -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/xmltex.fmt -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/jadetex.log -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/jadetex.fmt -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdfxmltex.fmt -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdfjadetex.fmt -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/mptopdf.log -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdfetex.fmt -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.log -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdfjadetex.log -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/xetex/xetex.fmt -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/xetex/xetex.log -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/xetex/xelatex.log -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/xetex/xelatex.fmt -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:tetex_data_t:s0 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R Confirming version texlive-38.20130427_r30134.el7 also fixed ownership (rpm point of view) in /usr/ directory of these directories [these were non-owned in previous version]: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/metapost /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/metapost /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/metapost /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/metapost /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/metapost /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metapost/base /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metapost/config /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metapost /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metapost/misc /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metapost/support/charlib /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metapost/support /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/metapost /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/adjustbox /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/collectbox /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ifoddpage /usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive /usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/tlpostcode Closing this as verified based on findings reported in comments 12,13 and 14. Part about files in /var/ not owned by any package is moved to bz1266433. *** Bug 1167474 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2015-2264.html |