selinux breaks revisor

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri Jan 25 01:06:24 UTC 2008


On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:59:47 -0600
Douglas McClendon <dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org> wrote:

> I'll take that 12 hours over the 1hr for livecd-creator any day of
> the week, knowing that I'm not running about 1000 rpm post install
> scripts under the limited protection of a chroot with selinux
> disabled. Combined with the comfort of knowing that if I do a compose
> on a different piece of hardware, that those 1000 scripts will have
> no chance to sneakily incur any host build dependencies based on
> their access to a random /proc (as opposed to the consistency of
> always identical qemu /proc).
> 
> You may call 12 hours for a compose unusably slow.  I don't.  And 
> computers and software get improved all the time, so maybe in 3
> years, that 12 hours will just become "order a pizza and wait for the
> results".

Eh, if we really wanted to do this, we'd just re-kickstart the builder
each time we wanted to do a build, and then just do the build in the
freshly kickstart install, removing it when done.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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