Re: [Audit-test-developer] [PATCH 07/14] misc/tar: add support for ACL testing

[Jiri J. <jja...@re...>]

On 12/06/2013 04:01 PM, Linda Knippers wrote:
>> Well, they might not need to. Tar with --selinux will work fine in all
>> cases, just the `ls -Z' check will fail, which is indifferent from the
>> previous "version" of the test.
>> That is - unless the distro builds GNU tar --without-selinux.
>>
>> Non-selinux-enabled distros will have bigger problems anyway as
>> PPROFILE=lspp kind of needs selinux for more than just one tar test.
>> (yes, this tar test is lspp-only)
> 
> Right.  I assume that a non-SELinux would only run in CAPP mode,
> although even in CAPP mode SELinux is optional.  In some cases
> we've used the DISTRO variable to skip them.
> 
> The misc tests actually run in CAPP and LSPP mode, don't they?
> 

At the bottom of misc/run.conf:

if [[ $PPROFILE == lspp ]]; then
    + tar
fi

So I believe my implicit assumption of SELinux being available
should be fine. If a distro provides SELinux as an optional feature,
that distro probably builds tar --with-selinux anyway.

Jiri