Re: Should selinux be standard?
On Sunday 14 September 2008 19:08, Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:
> I'd like to ask whether selinux should really be installed by default.
> On the Linksys NSLU2, a very popular device with only 32 MB of RAM,
> installing selinux-policy-default takes at least half an hour (with
> heavy swapping) or possibly even more. This is a major regression
> from the installer experience of etch. A bug about this problem was
> filed about 3 weeks ago (#495786) but there was no response from the
> maintainer at all.
I have made enquiries upstream and there are some suggestions as to how to
alleviate this issue (most of which can't be done in Lenny).
There may be some minor things I can do to alleviate the problem. One change
that I have made which will go into the next version is to only have a single
run of semodule. This drops the configure time on an AMD64 system with 64M
of RAM from 7m0.876s to 6m40.407s. It's only a 5% benefit, but still worth
having.
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