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* [PATCH v3] policycoreutils: sestatus belongs to bin not sbin
@ 2021-02-21 16:04 bauen1
  2021-02-21 19:02 ` Nicolas Iooss
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: bauen1 @ 2021-02-21 16:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: selinux; +Cc: Nicolas Iooss, Petr Lautrbach, bauen1

It is quite useful even to non-privileged users and doesn't require any
privileges to work, except for maybe -v.

Some tools hard code the old path, so a compatibility symlink is also
created.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Hettwer <j2468h@gmail.com>
---
 policycoreutils/sestatus/Makefile | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/policycoreutils/sestatus/Makefile b/policycoreutils/sestatus/Makefile
index 8c4f45f8..3dbb792b 100644
--- a/policycoreutils/sestatus/Makefile
+++ b/policycoreutils/sestatus/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Installation directories.
 LINGUAS ?= ru
 PREFIX ?= /usr
+BINDIR ?= $(PREFIX)/bin
 SBINDIR ?= $(PREFIX)/sbin
 MANDIR = $(PREFIX)/share/man
 ETCDIR ?= /etc
@@ -16,8 +17,13 @@ sestatus: sestatus.o
 install: all
 	[ -d $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man8 ] || mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man8
 	[ -d $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man5 ] || mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man5
+	-mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)
 	-mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(SBINDIR)
-	install -m 755 sestatus $(DESTDIR)$(SBINDIR)
+	# Some tools hard code /usr/sbin/sestatus ; add a compatibility symlink
+	# install will overwrite a symlink, so create the symlink before calling
+	# install to allow distributions with BINDIR == SBINDIR
+	ln -sf --relative $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/sestatus $(DESTDIR)$(SBINDIR)
+	install -m 755 sestatus $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)
 	install -m 644 sestatus.8 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man8
 	install -m 644 sestatus.conf.5 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man5
 	for lang in $(LINGUAS) ; do \
-- 
2.30.1


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