From: cpebenito@tresys.com (Christopher J. PeBenito)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:03:58 -0400
Subject: [refpolicy] [PATCH]: clarify the file_contexts.subs_dist
 configuration file usage
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References: <50250912.50902@trentalancia.com>
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On 08/10/12 09:13, Guido Trentalancia wrote:
> Add a comment at the top of the configuration file file_contexts.subs_dist
> to clarify that it performs aliasing and not substitutions in the
> strict sense of the word.
> 
> A name change might be considered too, if it proves to lead to further
> confusion.
> 
> There might be pieces of documentation that could benefit from similar
> considerations.
> 
> Also note that a specific manual page is missing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guido Trentalancia <guido@trentalancia.com>
> ---
>  config/file_contexts.subs_dist |   10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff -pruN refpolicy-08092012/config/file_contexts.subs_dist refpolicy-08092012-file_contexts.subs_dist-comment/config/file_contexts.subs_dist
> --- refpolicy-08092012/config/file_contexts.subs_dist    2012-06-21 20:10:29.011803405 +0200
> +++ refpolicy-08092012-file_contexts.subs_dist-comment/config/file_contexts.subs_dist 2012-08-10 17:01:36.045451839 +0200
> @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
> +# This file can is used to configure base path aliases as in:
> +#
> +# /aliased_path /original_path_as_configured_in_file_contexts
> +#
> +# where original_path_as_configured_in_file_contexts is a base
> +# path being used in the main file_contexts configuration file.
> +#
> +# It does not perform substitutions as done by sed(1), for
> +# example, but aliasing.
> +#
>  /lib32 /lib
>  /lib64 /lib
>  /run /var/run

Merged.

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Chris PeBenito
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