From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: RE: I would like to propose that we add compression to handleallpolicy files on disk. From: Karl MacMillan To: Joshua Brindle Cc: Stephen Smalley , Daniel J Walsh , SE Linux In-Reply-To: <6FE441CD9F0C0C479F2D88F959B01588514F33@exchange.columbia.tresys.com> References: <6FE441CD9F0C0C479F2D88F959B01588514F33@exchange.columbia.tresys.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:11:12 -0500 Message-Id: <1163099472.32083.55.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 13:50 -0500, Joshua Brindle wrote: > > From: Karl MacMillan [mailto:kmacmillan@mentalrootkit.com] > > > > On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 12:00 -0500, Joshua Brindle wrote: > > > > From: Stephen Smalley [mailto:sds@tycho.nsa.gov] > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 10:13 -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 09:34 -0500, Joshua Brindle wrote: > > > > > > Karl suggested that we can compress the policy packages but not the > > > kernel policy. As long as this isn't a policy package format change > > > (eg., the policy packages in /usr/share/selinux are the > > same they've > > > always been) and it is only libsemanage manipulating the > > files in the > > > store I'm fine with that. The module store is a private resource of > > > libsemanage so nothing else should be affected in any way by this. > > > > > > > Making semodule recognize bzipped files should be pretty > > simple as well > > - why wouldn't we do that to save space in /usr/share/selinux? > > > > What about everything else that will read modules (including setools in > the future)? It's a small amount of logic to detect. > They need to be stored in their native format and I don't > think that libsepol should link against a compression library to make > that happen. What's wrong with letting libsepol dlopen libbz2.so? Karl -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.