Author: Daniel J Walsh
Email: dwalsh@redhat.com
Subject: libsemage patch to not compile modules for seusers and fcontext
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:30:08 -0400

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Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
>
>>> I'm a little unclear on what this is doing - can you clarify?
>>>
>> This is clearing the existing seusers.final file, otherwise delete was
>> not working.
>>
> I think the previous code was doing more - it was merging the local file
> with the shipped base package file, like this:
>
>    data = extract_file_from_policy_package( )
>    write_file ( "seusers.final", data )
>    if ( data != null ) {
>        seusers.clear_cache()  // thereby forcing reload from
> seusers.final when cache() is called again (in merge_components)
>    } else {
>        seusers.clear()
>    }
>
> It's also doing this three times (once for fcontexts, once for seusers,
> once for seusers_extra).
> The problem is that you're skipping the link_sandbox call, which builds
> the base package, containing this information.
>
> Ivan
>
>
Ok I found some problems with the previous patch and did some code
reuse.  I added a function that only read base.pp in order to handle the
 base user_extra and seusers problem.

Signed-off-by: Joshua Brindle <method@manicmethod.com>
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