On 15 June 2016 at 22:07, Paul W. Frields <sticks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 09:08:35AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 17:08 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 19:26 +0100, James Hogarth wrote: > > > > So I was rather surprised by this Softpaedia article today: > > > > > http://news.softpedia.com/news/snap-packages-become-the-universal-bin > > > > ary-format-for-all-gnu-linux-distributions-505241.shtml > > > > It claims that Canonical state that they have been working with > > > > Fedora developers to make this the universal packaging format. > > > > The snapcraft.io site instructions say to use a COPR by a Canonical > > > > employee who is not a Fedora packager. > > > > Does anyone in marketing or development now what the article is > > > > referring to and what's going on? > > > > > > Snappy fundamentally relies on apparmour to do confinement (i.e. it > > > doesn't use filesystem namespaces like flatpak), how does this work on > > > fedora? You can't use selinux and apparmour at the same time, so this > > > shouldn't be able to work, unless they disable the containment feature. > > > > Right now, apparently, their install instructions tell you to disable > > SELinux. > > Permissive mode is what they require: > https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/zyga/snapcore/ > > > In terms of security of the system that's effectively the same as disabling. There's no need to differentiate in this context.
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