bug#44649: closed (1.2.0rc0 tarball includes guix-daemon.cil.in)

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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #44649,
regarding 1.2.0rc0 tarball includes guix-daemon.cil.in
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> It should instead include the guix-daemon.cil file which was built from
> it. The .in file has unsubstituted variabels in it which make it useless
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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

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> Daniel Brooks <db48x@db48x.net> skribis:
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>> It should instead include the guix-daemon.cil file which was built from
>> it. The .in file has unsubstituted variabels in it which make it useless
>> as an SELinux policy.
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> Yes, but running “./configure” gives you the ‘etc/guix-daemon.cil’ for
> your configuration.  What’s wrong with that?
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> Marius: common practice is to not include instantiated templates; we
> wouldn’t use templates in the first place if contents were always the
> same.  :-)

Yes indeed; somehow I thought the bootstrapped tarball also had run
"configure" with the common options, but obviously that's incorrect.

Closing this bug, as there is no reason to special-case this one file.

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