[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 1037 optimize restoring SELinux booleans

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Tue Oct 2 18:24:56 UTC 2012


Petr Viktorin wrote:
> On 10/01/2012 09:29 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Petr Viktorin wrote:
>>> On 10/01/2012 04:41 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>>> The web uninstall step can be very long because we restore two SELinux
>>>> booleans individually. This patch combines them into a single step, and
>>>> skips setting them if the values won't actually change.
>>>>
>>>> rob
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a reason to not reuse the code that sets the values on install?
>>> As far as I can tell it does the same thing slightly differently.
>>>
>>
>> The differences are enough that trying to consolidate them would likely
>> end up taking considerable more time, require considerable more testing,
>> etc. It would be worthwhile to revisit this at the beginning of a new
>> version, but at the end it seems safer to take the simplest route.
>>
>> rob
>
> Well, okay then, ACK. But please keep the bug open.
>

I'm going to withdraw this patch for now. I think it can wait for a more 
complete fix in a future release.

rob




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