platform_external_selinux/README.md
Nicolas Iooss e0d4025530 README: add much useful information
* Add SELinux logo
* Add a link to Travis-CI
* Add a link to lore.kernel.org archive
* Document that SELinux is packaged in several distributions, providing
  links to policycoreutils package (this package requires libsemanage,
  libselinux, libsepol, etc. so if it is packaged, most sub-projects
  have to also be)
* Make Fedora install command readable on GitHub without scrolling
  horizontally and update it
* Split installed packaged between the dependencies for the "main"
  libraries and programs, and the bindings

  - The install command line has been tested using a container from
    image fedora:31

* Document Debian dependencies

  - The install command line has been tested using a container from
    image debian:10

* Document running `make test` with `./scripts/env_use_destdir`
* Introduce "macOS" section for instructions specific to macOS.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss@m4x.org>
2020-05-04 12:31:02 +02:00

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SELinux Userspace

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Please submit all bug reports and patches to selinux@vger.kernel.org.

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Archive of this mailing list is available on https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/.

Installation

SELinux libraries and tools are packaged in several Linux distributions:

Building and testing

Build dependencies on Fedora:

# For C libraries and programs
dnf install \
    audit-libs-devel \
    bison \
    bzip2-devel \
    CUnit-devel \
    diffutils \
    flex \
    gcc \
    gettext \
    glib2-devel \
    make \
    libcap-devel \
    libcap-ng-devel \
    pam-devel \
    pcre-devel \
    xmlto

# For Python and Ruby bindings
dnf install \
    python3-devel \
    ruby-devel \
    swig

Build dependencies on Debian:

# For C libraries and programs
apt-get install --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests \
    bison \
    flex \
    gawk \
    gcc \
    gettext \
    make \
    libaudit-dev \
    libbz2-dev \
    libcap-dev \
    libcap-ng-dev \
    libcunit1-dev \
    libglib2.0-dev \
    libpcre3-dev \
    pkgconf \
    python3 \
    python3-distutils \
    systemd \
    xmlto

# For Python and Ruby bindings
apt-get install --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests \
    python3-dev \
    ruby-dev \
    swig

To build and install everything under a private directory, run:

make clean distclean

make DESTDIR=~/obj install install-rubywrap install-pywrap

To run tests with the built libraries and programs, several paths (relative to $DESTDIR) need to be added to variables $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, $PATH and $PYTHONPATH. This can be done using ./scripts/env_use_destdir:

DESTDIR=~/obj ./scripts/env_use_destdir make test

Some tests require the reference policy to be installed (for example in python/sepolgen). In order to run these ones, instructions similar to the ones in section install of ./.travis.yml can be executed.

To install as the default system libraries and binaries (overwriting any previously installed ones - dangerous!), on x86_64, run:

make LIBDIR=/usr/lib64 SHLIBDIR=/lib64 install install-pywrap relabel

or on x86 (32-bit), run:

make install install-pywrap relabel

This may render your system unusable if the upstream SELinux userspace lacks library functions or other dependencies relied upon by your distribution. If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.

macOS

To install libsepol on macOS (mainly for policy analysis):

cd libsepol; make PREFIX=/usr/local install

This requires GNU coreutils:

brew install coreutils