On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, Jan Cholasta wrote:
On 25.8.2015 21:25, Martin Kosek wrote:
On 08/25/2015 09:22 PM, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015, Martin Kosek wrote:
On 08/25/2015 08:59 PM, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
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).
Thank you, but I think I still did not get an answer for my question.
IIUC, the rough rpm process with regards to freeipa-server package
upgrade,
it should be in this order:
_
|
v
RPM installs some dependencies of freeipa-server
|
V
RPM installs "Requires(pre)" of freeipa-server
freeipa-server pre scriptlet runs
|
v
RPM installs freeipa-server
|
v
RPM installs "Requires(post)" of freeipa-server
freeipa-server post scriptlet runs
|
v
RPM installs some dependencies of freeipa-server
|
v
RPM executes posttrans scriptlets, including "ipa-server-upgrade".
The flow above is not correct. Each scriptlet of the package is executed
when package is installed. In particular, there is no period of waiting
until end of whole transaction to start executing %posttrans scriptlet of
a specific package. RPM only guarantees you that %posttrans scriptlet is
executed as the last thing of this package intall, after all
%post/%postun scriptlets were executed for this package and all triggers
for affected packages were executed.
Ah, so this was the key misunderstanding I was having. I thought that
all posttrans scripts for all packages are run in the end.
This does not guarantee that selinux-policy processing would be before
freeipa-server processing unless we explicitly ask for the ordering via
Requires(<stage>) tag. The order of processing packages is affected by
Requires(<stage>) tag, but processing of each single package is still
sequential.
My question is, if all the magic happens in the last step, how does
adding
(pre) or (post) Requires help, given we already have the "normal"
Requires?
Because with Requires nothing guarantees selinux-policy is
installed before freeipa-server in the same transaction, we have to use
Requires(<stage>) that would ensure we have the selinux-policy
installation/upgrade completed by the time that stage is reached in
freeipa-server installation/upgrade process. In reality Requires(pre) is
often enough too but not recommended as it also could cause loop
breaking issues.
Thanks for the explanation. If this is the case, the patch should be OK
as is indeed and Requires on post should be enough.
OK. Is this an ACK?
At least from my side it is ACK.
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/ Alexander Bokovoy
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