On 4/10/07, Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 14:08 -0500, Ted X Toth wrote:
> > When you have aliases in your setrans.conf
> > seobject.setransRecords().get_all returns a dictionary containing values
> > with the last alias whereas the first alias  is what I'd like (this is
> > also what the os uses). Alternatively it could return an ordered list of
> > all of the aliases as the dictionary values or maybe this would be a
> > different method.
>
> Unless such a change would pose a problem for current users of
> seobject.setransRecords().get_all, I'd be fine with changing it to
> return the first alias, and possibly introduce another method if we need
> to return all the aliases (to preserve interface compatibility).  cc'd
> Dan and Karl since they are likely to be more familiar with how this is
> being used today by tools like system-config-selinux.
>
> Do you want to submit a patch or are you making a RFE?
>
> --
> Stephen Smalley
> National Security Agency
>
>
Here's a patch for the first versus last alias. I'm not sure yet about
needing all of the aliases.

Ted