From: guido@trentalancia.com (Guido Trentalancia)
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:25:50 +0100
Subject: [refpolicy] [PATCH 06/15] Add firefox file contexts for binary
 installations
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On Thu, 10/03/2011 at 14.37 +0100, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:02:03PM +0100, Guido Trentalancia wrote:
> > Plain F14 policy has text relocations for libxul.so but does that
> > privately. Text relocations are bad if they can be avoided and usually
> > that is the case. Now we have at least two confirmed cases that this is
> > possible (me and you)...
> 
> I believe that the textrel_shlib_t is needed if you use the 32-bit binary
> distribution as offered by Mozilla (for firefox), not if it is built from
> source.

Perhaps someone could drop a note to mozilla.org ? When I build it, I
don't even need to pass the -fPIC flag and it does not require text
relocations...

> I'll build a firefox here and give feedback. 
> 
> In any case, you're correct in that textrel_shlib_t contexts should be
> considered in the libraries.fc one instead. But I'll first see if I can
> confirm if it is always necessary or only in particular situations.
> 
> Wkr,
> 	Sven Vermeulen
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