On Tue, 25 Aug 2015, Martin Kosek wrote:
On 08/25/2015 05:37 PM, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015, Martin Kosek wrote:
On 08/25/2015 04:37 PM, Jan Cholasta wrote:
On 25.8.2015 14:50, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015, Jan Cholasta wrote:
On 25.8.2015 14:23, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015, Jan Cholasta wrote:
Hi,
the attached patch fixes
<https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/5256>.
Honza
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Jan Cholasta
From 216be8de30747f80f490d4e91a7cca4af3e767d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Cholasta <jchol...@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:14:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] spec file: Add Requires(pre) on selinux-policy
This prevents ipa-server-upgrade failures on SELinux AVCs because of
old
selinux-policy version.
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/5256
---
freeipa.spec.in | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/freeipa.spec.in b/freeipa.spec.in
index cba91fe..fd73cda 100644
--- a/freeipa.spec.in
+++ b/freeipa.spec.in
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ Requires: systemd-units >= 38
Requires(pre): shadow-utils
Requires(pre): systemd-units
Requires(post): systemd-units
+Requires(pre): selinux-policy >= %{selinux_policy_version}
Requires: selinux-policy >= %{selinux_policy_version}
Requires(post): selinux-policy-base
Requires: slapi-nis >= 0.54.2-1
If we have it in Requires(pre), we don't need it in Requires, as
Requires(pre) is a superset of guarantees that Requires gives you.
Martin (CCed) told me Requires(pre) does not imply Requires.
See http://rpm.org/api/4.4.2.2/tsort.html (available since 2007):
----------------
Since the only way out of a dependency loop is to snip the loop
somewhere, rpm uses hints from Requires: dependencies to distinguish
co-requisite (these are not needed to install, only to use, a package)
from pre-requisite (these are guaranteed to be installed before the
package that includes the dependency) relations.
----------------
Requires(pre) ensures that selinux-policy of specific version is
installed before pre scripts of freeipa-server would run, be it in the
same transaction or in a previous one.
Hmm, ipa-server-upgrade is run in posttrans. Should the Requires(pre)
be changed to Required(posttrans)?
I don't think there is posttrans target. Perhaps, we can just make sure
Requires(post) is enough.
OK, let's try that. Updated patch attached.
Will this really make a difference? I thought the problem is caused by
selinux-policy being installed after freeipa-server package upgrade. We already
have Requires on selinux-policy, so I am not sure what is actually changed by
this patch.
The change is that with Requires(pre) or Requires(post) we are
guaranteed that selinux-policy is installed and available before our pre
or post scriptlets are run. With Requires only we are not guaranteed to
be installed after selinux-policy, only that it would be available as
part of the same transaction we are installed in.
We don't really need to have Requires(pre) because we don't rely on
selinux-policy being available in pre scriptlet. Forcing Requires(pre)
doesn't help anyone else (rpm/yum/dnf need to solve dependency loops and
we are only complicating with Requires(pre) if we don't actually need
it). Thus, choosing Require(post) is more correct from distribution
point of view.
Sure, but given that FreeIPA upgrade is run in the posttrans phase:
%posttrans server
# This must be run in posttrans so that updates from previous
# execution that may no longer be shipped are not applied.
/usr/sbin/ipa-server-upgrade --quiet >/dev/null || :
I am now not sure how Requires(pre) or Requires(post) help here, in
all cases, the right selinux-policy should be there before all the
posttrans scripts are being run.
I've looked at the rpm source code and here is the list of all supported
requires/dependencies types:
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/blob/140744377b019e0de81d76d0931c32228d2ed57e/build/rpmfc.c#L1056
Requires(posttrans) is there so we could use this one too but it was
added only in 4.12-alpha which means it is missing in RHEL/CentOS 7, for
example, as they are only up to 4.11.
Maybe the new selinux-policy is required for certmonger itself or some
other event during upgrade?
No, I don't think so. However, we cannot set Requires(posttrans), thus
we should be using closest target before it, i.e. Requires(post).
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/ Alexander Bokovoy
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