Re: [PATCH] libsemanage: Add Ruby Bindings

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

On 05/07/2009 01:11 PM, David P. Quigley wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 13:10 -0400, Joshua Brindle wrote:
>> David P. Quigley wrote:
>>> From: David P. Quigley<dpquigl@moss-guppy.epoch.ncsc.mil>
>>>
>>> This patch adds a SWIG specification file for ruby bindings for libsemanage.
>>> The spec file is almost identical to the python SWIG file with the exception
>>> that all list generating typemaps have been removed and the python related
>>> functions have been replaced with the corresponding ruby ones. Finally the
>>> Makefile is modified to be able to build the new bindings. Something to note is
>>> that on 64-bit systems ruby.h might be found somewhere under /usr/lib64 instead
>>> of /usr/lib so LIBDIR=/usr/lib64 will be needed to build the ruby bindings from
>>> source.
>> What is going to be using these bindings?
>
> I currently have several Facter addons for Puppet that make use of them.
> We are looking into what can be done to expand Puppet's ability to
> effectively manage systems with SELinux.
>
> Dave
>
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My concern with doing this patch is that we end up with puppetd being 
able to manage selinux policy directly rather then executing semanage 
command.  But for now puppetd needs to run as an unconfined domain.



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