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authorDaniel Brooks <db48x@db48x.net>2020-11-14 08:04:30 -0800
committerMarius Bakke <marius@gnu.org>2020-11-15 23:09:46 +0100
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doc: Add a note about SELinux relabeling after upgrades to guix-daemon.
* doc/guix.texi (SELinux Support): Add note about upgrades. Signed-off-by: Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org>
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@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2020 pinoaffe@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2020 André Batista@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Alexandru-Sergiu Marton@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2020 raingloom@*
+Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Daniel Brooks@*
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
@@ -1398,6 +1399,11 @@ install and run it, which lifts it into the @code{guix_daemon_t} domain.
At that point SELinux could not prevent it from accessing files that are
allowed for processes in that domain.
+You will need to relabel the store directory after all upgrades to
+@file{guix-daemon}, such as after running @code{guix pull}. Assuming the
+store is in @file{/gnu}, you can do this with @code{restorecon -vR /gnu},
+or by other means provided by your operating system.
+
We could generate a much more restrictive policy at installation time,
so that only the @emph{exact} file name of the currently installed
@code{guix-daemon} executable would be labelled with