What makes a spin a Spin?
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at redhat.com
Tue Feb 26 10:09:30 UTC 2008
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 22:39 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:19:53 -0900
> > > We _are_ dealing with it. Infrastructure was kind enough to provide
> > > xen instances for spins to be created on. I'm volunteering to do the
> > > actual spin creation. Rel-eng is working out a proposal (which I know
> > > various Board members have seen drafts of) for how to handle this.
> > >
> > Side note about this, if anyone wants to try to get the cd creation
> > working in a chroot or via mock it would be greatly appreciated. As it is
> > we've got a dedicated i386 and x86_64 machine that just sit there waiting
> > for spins, we should be able to do it on the builders.
>
> If only it were as simple as "get it going in mock". Unfortunately,
> with how SELinux policy works in chroots (hint: it affects outside the
> chroot), this is pretty non-trivial and is going to require getting
> SELinux upstream on-board with allowing contexts to be set which aren't
> known by the kernel or per-namespace policy.
>
That's why I'm asking someone else to do it :) Shouldn't it just work if
we just have all the builders in permissive mode? Needless to say
maintaining whole machines just to build cd images seems silly, especially
for something like SELinux.
-Mike
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