Re: [arch-general] Revisit official SELinux support

2013-10-29 Thread Squall Lionheart 
>
> The first answer that i can think is the patches needed on many packages to
> support selinux.
>

In the CentOS world, SELinux is a standard feature and there are a lot of
command line tools that contain extra command options to access and modify
SELinux contexts.  For example, here is a snippet from the man pages for
the added features found in the ls command:

  SELinux options:

   --lcontext
  Display security context.   Enable -l. Lines will probably be
too wide for most
  displays.

   -Z, --context
  Display security context so it fits on  most  displays.
Displays  only  mode,
  user, group, security context and file name.

   --scontext
  Display only security context and file name.

I don't know all the commands that have extra options, but I know find is
one of them.

Thanks
Squall

Re: [arch-general] Static libs

2013-10-29 Thread Carsten Mattner 
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Allan McRae  wrote:
> On 29/10/13 08:43, Carsten Mattner wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Timothée Ravier  wrote:
>>> On 26/10/2013 22:22, Carsten Mattner wrote:
 Yes but this was news to me and is unusual. So this should be stated
 clearly on archlinux.org or at least the wikipedia article.
>>>
>>> Please edit/update the pages you deem fit for this information in the
>>> Arch Wiki and/or Wikipedia.
>>
>> Checked Debian and Fedora and was surprised that both don't bundle
>> .a files. Must be not that unusual and I was wrong.
>>
>
> Not quite correct.   Fedora and Debian do provide static libs in their
> -devel packages along with headers.

That makes sense and I had been wondering how I used to link statically
on Debian. So this is a noteworthy differentiating feature after all then.
Suggestions where in the wikipedia article to add the "disclaimer"?