[gentoo-soc] SELinux policy originator | Progress report #1

[Devan Franchini]

Hello Gentoo-soc community,

Week #1 progress report:

To start off, the SELinux policy originator model that I have decided
on with my mentor (SwifT) will consists of three things:

* Capture Plugin
* Workflow component
* Query interface

So what is each thing?

Capture plugin - The capture plugin is essentially self explanatory
but essentially it captures the macro expansions in the Makefile
located in /refpolicy/Makefile and parses it into a suitable and
useful manner for the workflow component.

Workflow Component - The workflow component takes the output of the
capture plugin and stores it into a database for the query interface
to then access later.

Query interface - This is the tool that the user will be using to
access the information stored in the workflow component.

=========================  = Progress =============================

Over this past week I have been working to create a proto type capture
plugin for the originator. It successfully captures the macro
expansion output but it is far from complete. It still needs a proper
parsing for the Workflow component.

I have also created a Github for my information at:

http://github.com/twitch153/seorigin/

and a wiki page with a lot of useful information regarding the design
of the SELinux policy originator at:

https://github.com/twitch153/seorigin/wiki/SELinux-Policy-originator-design