selinux-policy-devel?

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 06:16 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> > Perhaps the selinux-policy package should be split into an 
> > selinux-policy and selinux-policy-devel package, with the -devel 
> > package being needed for building new policy/modules, and the base 
> > policy package containing just the stuff needed for regular runtime 
> > usage?
> >
> > I suggest this because I just tried building a policy module in mock 
> > with the new minimal environment and it fell over because building 
> > policy modules requires m4, which is not in the minimal environment. 
> > So m4 needs adding as a dep of selinux-policy (it's referenced from 
> > /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/Makefile), and this is really a 
> > devel-specific package that shouldn't be needed by most people, hence 
> > splitting off a -devel subpackage and adding the dep to that makes 
> > more sense. The -devel package could also have a dep on checkpolicy, 
> > which would be nice...
> >
> We have gone back and forth on this one.   The original idea was to make 
> it easier for people to build custom policy and not have to go looking 
> for this package.

Well that's OK but it really should have deps on m4 and checkpolicy
then, since both are needed for building custom policy.

Paul.