selinux-policy-devel?

[Paul Howarth]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> 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.

I see from today's rawhide report that a -devel package has been split 
out :-)

Is this going to happen in FC5 with the next update too?

Paul.