Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools: adjust rules for FLASK policy generation

[Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/14/16 3:43 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> Change the default on the --{enable,disable}-xsmpolicy configure switch
> to disabled by default but always build the necessary utilities for
> FLASK. The result is that the tools will always be built (and can be
> omitted by the packager) but the policy won't always be generated and
> installed if the tools are built. Previously the policy was always built
> if the tools were built.
> 
> CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> So this patch is a replacement for:
> http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-12/msg02538.html
> 
> This was to address concerns that the FLASK policy was now always built and
> installed and would confuse users. Patches to handle this potential change
> have been submitted in osstest have already been submitted to the ML. I
> posted more rationale behind this on the other patch at:
> http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-01/msg01591.html
> ---
>  tools/Makefile     | 2 +-
>  tools/configure.ac | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/Makefile b/tools/Makefile
> index 9f74ac7..3f9289b 100644
> --- a/tools/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/Makefile
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ SUBDIRS-y :=
>  SUBDIRS-y += include
>  SUBDIRS-y += libs
>  SUBDIRS-y += libxc
> -SUBDIRS-$(FLASK_ENABLE) += flask
> +SUBDIRS-y += flask
>  SUBDIRS-y += xenstore
>  SUBDIRS-y += misc
>  SUBDIRS-y += examples
> diff --git a/tools/configure.ac b/tools/configure.ac
> index 6c70040..e0fb862 100644
> --- a/tools/configure.ac
> +++ b/tools/configure.ac
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ AX_ARG_DEFAULT_DISABLE([rpath], [Build tools with 
> -Wl,-rpath,LIBDIR])
>  AX_ARG_DEFAULT_DISABLE([githttp], [Download GIT repositories via HTTP])
>  AX_ARG_DEFAULT_ENABLE([monitors], [Disable xenstat and xentop monitoring 
> tools])
>  AX_ARG_DEFAULT_ENABLE([ocamltools], [Disable Ocaml tools])
> -AX_ARG_DEFAULT_ENABLE([xsmpolicy], [Disable XSM policy compilation])
> +AX_ARG_DEFAULT_DISABLE([xsmpolicy], [Disable XSM policy compilation])
>  AX_ARG_DEFAULT_DISABLE([ovmf], [Enable OVMF])
>  AX_ARG_DEFAULT_ENABLE([seabios], [Disable SeaBIOS])
>  
> 

Given the support of the maintainers and committers for the proposal
[1], this patch should NOT be applied.

[1]
http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-01/msg01796.html

-- 
Doug Goldstein

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