[CentOS-devel] Making the redhat selinux-policy repository publicly available

Tue Jul 11 20:37:59 UTC 2023
Troy Dawson <tdawson at redhat.com>

On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 12:50 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 9:31 AM Troy Dawson <tdawson at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 4:28 AM Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> It seems that the selinux-policy rpm is built from
> >> git at gitlab.cee.redhat.com:SELinux/selinux-policy.git which seems to be
> >> a redhat internal repository. More specifically, if I try to checkout
> >> the commit listed in the selinux-policy spec
> >> (
> https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/selinux-policy/-/blob/c9s/selinux-policy.spec#L3
> )
> >> in the fedora-selinux repository cloned from github, I get an error
> >> saying that the commit does not exist. It would be great if the
> >> repository containing this commit was publicly available and open for
> >> external contributors just like all the other packages in CentOS
> >> Stream. Is it possible to make this happen?
> >
> >
> > I'm not the selinux-policy maintainer, so I can't comment on where they
> work on the selinux-policy source code.
> >
> > But this is how I get the sources, if that is what you are ultimately
> looking for.
> >
> >   centpkg clone selinux-policy
> >   cd selinux-policy
> >   centpkg sources
> > or if you want to know where they really are
> >   centpkg -v sources
> > This shows it to be coming from
> >
> https://sources.stream.centos.org/sources/rpms/selinux-policy/selinux-policy-66a4b6e.tar.gz/sha512/797e746ccd271fe531a91b2639aed06447fb2720267dadba225989d81634b1fb7b2a4e78262612a41b6073f6e0eca358b8c274adc33630cd3f0db1390cd57767/selinux-policy-66a4b6e.tar.gz
> >
> > The sources information is found in the sources file
> >
> https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/selinux-policy/-/blob/c9s/sources
> >
> > I know this isn't exactly what you asked for, but I hope it still helps.
> >
>
> I think the idea is that having the Git repository in a public
> location would allow the CentOS Hyperscale SIG to contribute to the
> SELinux policy in a meaningful way.
>

Ah, ok.  That makes sense.
As I said, I'm not the maintainer so I don't know why it's where it is.  So
I'll step out of the conversation.

Troy
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