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libpriv/postprocess: work around semanage bug #4122

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There is a bug in the latest semanage code which causes an invocation of semodule --rebuild-if-modules-changed to still write a policy even though nothing changed since a full policy build. On FCOS and RHCOS, this bug is triggered as early as ostree admin deploy in cosa when creating the disk images. This results in shipping images with a policy diff baked in.

Hack around this by immediately rerunning
semodule --rebuild-if-modules-changed after building the policy.

Fixes: openshift/os#1036

There is a bug in the latest semanage code which causes an invocation of
`semodule --rebuild-if-modules-changed` to still write a policy even
though nothing changed since a full policy build. On FCOS and RHCOS,
this bug is triggered as early as `ostree admin deploy` in cosa when
creating the disk images. This results in shipping images with a policy
diff baked in.

Hack around this by immediately rerunning
`semodule --rebuild-if-modules-changed` after building the policy.

Fixes: openshift/os#1036
/* Temporary workaround for https://github.com/openshift/os/issues/1036. */
{
rust::Vec child_argv = { rust::String ("semodule"), rust::String ("-n"),
rust::String ("--rebuild-if-modules-changed") };
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The reason I went with --rebuild-if-modules-changed here instead of the newer --refresh is that the latter is not in f36 and while f36 isn't affected by this bug, I'd like this patch in place ahead of time.

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Also, I didn't add a feature check here for --rebuild-if-modules-changed. I think all the userspaces we care about for the main branch have that patch now.

@cgwalters I think we'll need to backport this to the rhel8 branch, right?

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Oh blah. So we have newer semodule in rhel8 versus f36?? 😢

@cgwalters I think we'll need to backport this to the rhel8 branch, right?

Yeah

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