Description of problem: As described here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux_Policy_Modules_Packaging_Draft#Runtime_Dependencies , when packaging a policy module, you need to specify the version of selinux-policy used to compile it. The hack to extract the selinux-policy version doesn't work any more, because unversioned doc dirs in F20, and querying the rpm database is unreliable in chroots. See this thread for more information: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-August/188070.html What is requested here is a way to be able to determine the version of the selinux-policy package. It can be done placing a file with the version number, as explained in this mail: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-August/188089.html
A cute fix that would make the existing hack keep working would be to append a specially-formatted comment to /usr/share/selinux/devel/policyhelp, e.g.: xdg-open file:///usr/share/doc/selinux-policy/html/index.html # /selinux-policy-%{version}/
A follow-on comment on the original thread suggests a better way: [D]rop it into /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d so it can be used even easier in specfiles, something like echo '%%_selinux_policy_version %{version}' > \ $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_rpmconfigdir}/macros.d/selinux-policy.macros
(In reply to Richard W.M. Jones from comment #2) > A follow-on comment on the original thread suggests a better way: > > [D]rop it into /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d so it can > be used even easier in specfiles, something like > > echo '%%_selinux_policy_version %{version}' > \ > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_rpmconfigdir}/macros.d/selinux-policy.macros I like this too.
Fixed in selinux-policy-3.12.1-76.fc20.noarch Added mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_rpmconfigdir}/macros.d echo '%%_selinux_policy_version %{version}-%{release}' > %{buildroot}%{_rpmconfigdir}/macros.d/selinux-policy.macros cat /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/selinux-policy.macros %_selinux_policy_version 3.12.1-76
(In reply to Daniel Walsh from comment #4) > Fixed in selinux-policy-3.12.1-76.fc20.noarch > > Added > mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_rpmconfigdir}/macros.d > echo '%%_selinux_policy_version %{version}-%{release}' > > %{buildroot}%{_rpmconfigdir}/macros.d/selinux-policy.macros > > cat /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/selinux-policy.macros > %_selinux_policy_version 3.12.1-76 This doesn't work; I think the filename needs to start with "macros": # rpm --eval '%_selinux_policy_version' %_selinux_policy_version # ls -l /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d total 16 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2309 Sep 6 06:55 macros.systemd -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 40 Sep 5 14:57 selinux-policy.macros # cp /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/selinux-policy.macros /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.selinux-policy # rpm --eval '%_selinux_policy_version' 3.12.1-76.fc21
This is fixed in -79 in Rawhide but I don't see any selinux-policy updates for F-20 in bodhi. I manually downloaded -80 for F-20 from koji and that worked for me.
selinux-policy-3.12.1-83.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/selinux-policy-3.12.1-83.fc20
Package selinux-policy-3.12.1-83.fc20: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing selinux-policy-3.12.1-83.fc20' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-17722/selinux-policy-3.12.1-83.fc20 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
Package selinux-policy-3.12.1-84.fc20: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing selinux-policy-3.12.1-84.fc20' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-17722/selinux-policy-3.12.1-84.fc20 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
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This seems to be fixed in at least Fedora 21 and up: $ cat /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.selinux-policy %_selinux_policy_version 3.13.1-116.fc23
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