[apparmor] alias rules broken for /{,var/}run/

Steve Beattie steve at nxnw.org
Tue Nov 1 19:22:58 UTC 2011


On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 03:20:15PM -0400, John Johansen wrote:
> On 11/01/2011 02:10 PM, Christian Boltz wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 1. November 2011 schrieb John Johansen:
> >> I have spent more time looking at this and it will be fixed in the
> >> next release.  The real question is whether we will fix this in 2.7,
> >> it will be a larger patch but is doable.  How important would you
> >> rate fixing this in 2.7
> > 
> > Well, it breaks several profiles on my system ;-)
> > 
> > OTOH, I didn't see any bugreport about it on bnc - maybe I'm the only 
> > one using a symlinked /var/ ?
> > 
> > That said: How big is the risk that your patch breaks something else? 
> > If the risk is low, take it for 2.7. Otherwise commit it after the 2.7 
> > release and give it some testing.
> > 
> There is certainly risk, the patch will be fairly large I am guess on
> the order of several hundred lines of code.  It would have to come with
> regression tests.
> 
> Right now I am of the mind that we fix it in the dev branch, and then
> we can consider back porting it for 2.7.1

That is my inclination as well.

-- 
Steve Beattie
<sbeattie at ubuntu.com>
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