From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4559EC24.90509@mentalrootkit.com> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:17:40 -0500 From: Karl MacMillan MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Brindle CC: Daniel J Walsh , Stephen Smalley , SE Linux Subject: Re: I would like to propose that we add compression to handle allpolicy files on disk. References: <6FE441CD9F0C0C479F2D88F959B015885C7836@exchange.columbia.tresys.com> In-Reply-To: <6FE441CD9F0C0C479F2D88F959B015885C7836@exchange.columbia.tresys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov 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 -- 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.