query: mock + libselinux-mock.so LD_PRELOAD... why?

[Michael E Brown]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 04:49:41PM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Michael E Brown wrote:
> If you're not using the policy module, I'd expect you to have problems 
> building packages that run mono and/or java code at build time as 
> described at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/MockTricks
> 
> The package I came across that exhibited this problem and led me to 
> write the policy module was "lat", a mono-based package.
> 
> >There is a current git branch with the selinux changes ported at:
> >
> >    git clone http://linux.dell.com/git/mock.git
> >    git checkout -b selinux origin/selinux
> 
> I built an RPM from this, and my first try at running it resulted in:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/libexec/mock.py", line 430, in <module>
>     os.environ["LD_PRELOAD"] = LIBDIR+"/libselinux-mock.so"
> NameError: name 'LIBDIR' is not defined
> 
> I added a manual definition of LIBDIR into /usr/libexec/mock.py and tt 
> ran a bit further. I now get the sane file contexts that I was expecting 
> but none of the scriptlets run in the target chroot because the object 
> pointed to by the LD_PRELOAD isn't available in the chroot:
> 
> /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: 
> /usr/lib64/libselinux-mock.so: cannot open shared object file: No such 
> file or directory
> 
> ... and so on.
> 
> Don't know what to do about that.

The selinux stuff was only lightly tested. Looks like it still needs
work. Looks like I missed something when I rebased to HEAD.

I'll take another look at it, and also check out lat.

--
Michael