[pkg-apparmor] Bug#712451: Bug#712451: Special case

[Christian Boltz]

Hello,

Am Donnerstag, 7. Januar 2021, 13:22:42 CET schrieb Christian Ehrhardt:
> A special case worth mentioning in this case might be that while
> normal profiles get re-loaded after being installed - this is not
> required (nor working) for abstraction files.

I'm not sure if this comment was really meant for this bug, but I'll 
answer nevertheless ;-)  (If it was on the wrong bug, feel free to also 
forward the comment below to the right one.)

You are right that you can't reload an abstraction.

However, you could reload all profiles ;-)  and maybe you should 
consider to do this if an abstraction changes. (In theory it could have 
side effects if there are modified, but intentionally-not-yet-reloaded 
profiles. In practise, I'd prefer these side effects over having 
profiles with outdated abstractions loaded.)


Regards,

Christian Boltz

PS: In case you wonder - the openSUSE package apparmor-abstractions
    reloads all profiles in its postinstall script.
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[Jan Engelhardt in opensuse-factory]
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