Re: Patch to allow semanage to set boolean values and translate booleans via policy.xml

[Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>]

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Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 11:25 -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 15:58 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>>> Also added translations of booleans to command line.
>>>
>>>> /usr/sbin/semanage boolean -l  | grep nfs_export
>>>> nfs_export_all_rw              -> off   Allow nfs to be exported read/write.
>>>> nfs_export_all_ro              -> on    Allow nfs to be exported read only
>>>> sh-3.2# /usr/sbin/semanage boolean -l  | grep nfs
>>>> xen_use_nfs                    -> off   Allow xen to manage nfs files
> [...]
>>>> nfs_export_all_ro              -> on    Allow nfs to be exported read only
>>>
>>> This time with the patch.  :^)
>> Offhand, the only problem I see it that semanage boolean -l then fails
>> if /usr/share/selinux/devel/policy.xml doesn't exist, rather than just
>> falling back to displaying the untranslated booleans.
>>
>> Also, is /usr/share/selinux/devel/policy.xml created by upstream
>> refpolicy or is it Fedora-specific?
> 
> The infrastructure for building a policy.xml from the headers is
> installed by upstream, but the policy.xml from refpolicy is not
> installed.  This allows 3rd parties to add their headers and then a
> policy.xml can be built to include their module.  Installing a
> policy.xml there is a fedora-specific thing.
> 
If I want to rebuild it after an interface file gets installed or want
to add my own xml to it, what do I need to do?

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