Re: I would like to propose that we add compression to handle allpolicy files on disk.

[Karl MacMillan <kmacmillan@mentalrootkit.com>]

Joshua Brindle wrote:
>> From: Daniel J Walsh [mailto:dwalsh@redhat.com] 
>>
> 
>> I am planning on compressing them, and changing the post 
>> install to uncompress into a temp dir during install.  That 
>> way it will at least be less of a problem.
>>
>> That along with elimination of some of the stuff in modules 
>> subdirs should save us a lot of space, until we get some 
>> consensus on compression of the pp files.
>>
> 
> So you are going to compress them *until* we get a consensus on
> compressing them? This seems like a bad idea if we are going to try to
> have any kind of consistency between selinux distributions (or even
> between RH and upstream..)
> 

Just the files from the rpm.

> I think having libsemanage compress files in the store is fine, as
> that's a private resource of libsemanage users but having files on the
> filesystem that are compressed but has nothing that can read them in the
> format they are in on disk is not ideal I don't think..
> 

If they sit there with a .bz2 extension I think it is not a big deal.

Karl


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