[apparmor] Minimum versions of tools

Christian Boltz apparmor at cboltz.de
Sun Jul 7 12:25:28 UTC 2013


Hello,

Am Freitag, 5. Juli 2013 schrieb Seth Arnold:
> Steve pointed out that I should document the Perl 5.10.1 minimum
> version dependency introduced by Kshitij's de-dup patch. I took the
> opportunity to broadly sketch our dependencies in our top-level
> README.
> 
> Thoughts?

It makes sense, even if it sounds slightly funny to explicitely mention 
a perl version from 2007 ;-)

> Signed-off-by: Seth Arnold <seth.arnold at canonical.com>
> 
> 
> === modified file 'README'
> --- README	2012-11-06 01:27:20 +0000
> +++ README	2013-07-05 22:13:04 +0000
> @@ -198,3 +198,21 @@
> 
>  TODO

It would be nice if someone can fix this TODO ;-)

> +
> +-----------------
> +Required versions
> +-----------------
> +
> +The AppArmor userspace utilities are written with some assumptions
> about +installed and available versions of other tools. This is a
> (possibly +incomplete) list of known version dependencies:
> +
> +AppArmor.pm (used by aa-audit, aa-autodep, aa-complain, aa-disable,
> +aa-enforce, aa-genprof, aa-logprof, aa-unconfined) requires minimum
> +Perl 5.10.1.
> +
> +Python scripts require minimum Python 2.7. Some utilities may require
> +Python 3.3. Python 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 are largely untested.
> +
> +Most shell scripts are written for POSIX-compatible sh. aa-decode
> expects +bash, probably version 3.2 and higher.

The text looks good to me (even if I didn't check all version numbers 
you mentioned), therefore:
    Acked-By: Christian Boltz <apparmor at cboltz.de>
    for both trunk and the 2.8 branch.


Regards,

Christian Boltz
-- 
Es ist der Beweis, daß es _so_ _nicht_ geht. Und das ist erstmal ein
Wissensgewinn. Ich denke, der Weg sollte jetzt nicht sein "Es soll aber!
Bieg! Quetsch!", sondern "Wie dann?". [Ratti in fontlinge-devel]




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