From: cpebenito@tresys.com (Christopher J. PeBenito)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:28:28 -0400
Subject: [refpolicy] [PATCH v2]: clarify the file_contexts.subs_dist
 configuration file usage
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On 08/20/12 06:28, Guido Trentalancia wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> The following "patch on patch", improves the current version of the file_contexts.subs_dist comments recently added by a v1 patch:
> 
> Improve the comment at the top of the configuration file file_contexts.subs_dist.
> 
> 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
> disambiguations.
> 
> A manual page (userspace) is missing (one could easily be created by
> linking from file_contexts.5).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guido Trentalancia <guido@trentalancia.com>
> ---
>  config/file_contexts.subs_dist |   20 +++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> --- refpolicy-08092012-file_contexts.subs_dist-comment/config/file_contexts.subs_dist	2012-08-10 17:01:36.045451839 +0200
> +++ refpolicy-08092012-file_contexts.subs_dist-comment-v2/config/file_contexts.subs_dist	2012-08-20 13:18:35.568288286 +0200
> @@ -1,12 +1,22 @@
> -# This file can is used to configure base path aliases as in:
> +# This file can be optionally used to configure base path aliases
> +# for directories as in:
>  #
> -# /aliased_path /original_path_as_configured_in_file_contexts
> +#    /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.
> +# path being used in the file_contexts SELinux policy configuration
> +# file.
>  #
> -# It does not perform substitutions as done by sed(1), for
> -# example, but aliasing.
> +# It does not perform substitutions as done by sed(1), for example,
> +# but aliasing (or in other words it creates equivalences between
> +# different base directories).
> +#
> +# With reference to the example syntax shown above, /aliased_path and
> +# all files and directories located under it will be labelled exactly
> +# as /original_path_as_configured_in_file_contexts and all files and
> +# directories located under it.
> +#
> +# See file_contexts(5) for further information.
>  #
>  /lib32 /lib
>  /lib64 /lib

This isn't applying for me.

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