Bug 224641

Summary:	removal of old selinux masking from non-selinux profiles
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Chris PeBenito (RETIRED) <pebenito>
Component:	Eclasses	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	blocker	CC:	mips, mr_bones_, qa, wolf31o2
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Chris PeBenito (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-06-02 17:39:07 UTC

I still see that masking of SELinux packages that I made back in 2006
have propagated out to current profiles:

arch/mips/package.mask
default-linux/mips/package.mask

arch/sparc/package.mask
default-linux/sparc/sparc64/package.mask

default-linux/alpha/no-nptl/package.mask

default-linux/x86/no-nptl/package.mask

default/linux/package.mask
features/no-nptl/package.mask

The masking is only required if the profile does not have a
working/stable glibc >= 2.4.  Would the relevant herds please remove the
masking from the profiles (assuming there is an appropriate glibc)?  If
there isn't an appropriate glibc, I'd ask that you make a comment in the
file so you remember to remove the mask in the future :)  I don't know who the last two non-arch profiles belong to, so I assigned to base-system.

Comment 1 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-06-05 08:42:37 UTC

x86 unmasked as no-nptl should have 2.5* available.  The profile will phase out soon anyway.

Comment 2 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-06-05 11:42:50 UTC

sparc done.

As for alpha, the no-nptl profile is deprecated, so...

Adding qa@ for those profiles you mention

Comment 3 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-08-31 15:54:50 UTC

no-nptl profile on alpha was punted

Comment 4 Chris PeBenito (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-04 02:36:47 UTC

My grep today reveals these profiles still have the masking, can you please check again?  It shows up in deprecated profiles, but the main problem is this:

default/linux/package.mask

Since the SELinux profile inherits default/linux/$ARCH, the above causes problems.

Comment 5 Chris PeBenito (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-04 12:23:51 UTC

Actually, there should be no problem removing this.  SELinux is only supported on amd64 and x86 these days, and they have stable glibc >= 2.4.

Comment 6 Chris PeBenito (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-04 16:57:18 UTC

reassigning to release, as I'm told this is the group responsible for the default/linux profile.

Comment 7 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-05 05:20:46 UTC

Just do it, you have commit access right?

Comment 8 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-05 06:21:30 UTC

fixed