[chef] Re: Recent change to template resource behavior?

[Matthew Moretti < >]

I found this in the differences between those two versions.  Could that be what fixed it?  I know hardly anything about SELinux, but I thought someone on the list had said something about the context being clobbered because the file was created in a temporary directory and then moved into place.  Is the behavior different if you copy the file there instead?

If this was what caused the fix, then I would say that it wasn't a deliberate attempt to fix an SELinux problem, judging by the commit message.

-Matt Moretti

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Kevin Keane (subscriptions) < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I am trying to work on the selinux cookbook for various things. One of the main issues I wanted to address is described in CHEF-1856; the same problem has been driving me crazy for quite a while.

 

Basically, Chef will clobber the SELinux context of files generated from a template. This is still happening in 10.16.0.

 

Much to my surprise, the problem no longer seems to exist in 10.16.6. I didn't see anything in the release notes about this issue being addressed.

 

Can anybody confirm that this has been fixed? And if so, was it fixed as a side effect of something else (and thus could regress easily), or has it been specifically addressed?

 

Thanks!