From: guido@trentalancia.com (Guido Trentalancia) Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:55:56 +0100 Subject: [refpolicy] text relocations for Altera Quartus II In-Reply-To: <201103191044.51855.russell@coker.com.au> References: <1300471770.14419.23.camel@tesla.lan> <201103191044.51855.russell@coker.com.au> Message-ID: <1300546556.3034.17.camel@tesla.lan> To: refpolicy@oss.tresys.com List-Id: refpolicy.oss.tresys.com Hello Russell ! On Sat, 19/03/2011 at 10.44 +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Guido Trentalancia wrote: > > Up until the beginning of this year the Altera Quartus II (free/web > > edition) for Linux was requiring text relocations on most of the dynamic > > libraries shipped with the package (not open source). Many people on the > > Altera forum were just disabling SELinux and to the best of my knowledge > > Altera did not provide fixed binaries. > > > > If it is of any interest to anybody, I could do some more detailed > > research and get back with the list of files that would need to be added > > to system/libraries.fc (provided that the installer has a default > > location which I cannot remember now). > > Why would we want to add support for such non-free software? The web edition is free software. It is not open-source. In any case, the following should be considered: - it hasn't got an equivalent (at present there are packages in libraries.fc that have open-source equivalents, e.g. Acrobat Reader, Realplayer); - it is software from a vendor to support its own hardware products, so it's very specific; - users are unable to run it and are therefore are disabling SELinux which is worse; - it is widely used in universities and distributed for free with RTL design books; - I do not care personally as my installation had been fixed locally long time ago within seconds. > That seems likely to get us more uncontrolled growth in .fc entries and less > benefit than most things that we might do, particularly as they have an > "installer" rather than using .deb or .rpm. Well, if the installer has a default base installation path, then there won't me much difference... > Why not just write a blog post about how the user can run chcon after > installation and also describe how Altera could fix their build environment? Done already on the Altera forum. But no reply from Altera. I am not connected with them in any way, it's just something that I need to use. For fairness now, I shall mention that a similar products from Xilinx are also available. Regards, Guido