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* [PATCH 1/2] python/semanage: explain why sepolicy is imported in a function
@ 2019-01-05 15:45 Nicolas Iooss
  2019-01-05 15:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] python/sepolgen: close /etc/selinux/sepolgen.conf after parsing it Nicolas Iooss
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From: Nicolas Iooss @ 2019-01-05 15:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: selinux

Importing modules inside functions is quite uncommon in Python. This is
nevertheless required with sepolicy because it loads the current SELinux
policy when it is imported (and raises ValueError when this fails).

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss@m4x.org>
---
 python/semanage/semanage | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/python/semanage/semanage b/python/semanage/semanage
index 1cb136831422..49add51ec24e 100644
--- a/python/semanage/semanage
+++ b/python/semanage/semanage
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ class CheckRole(argparse.Action):
         if not newval:
             newval = []
         try:
+            # sepolicy tries to load the SELinux policy and raises ValueError if it fails.
             import sepolicy
             roles = sepolicy.get_all_roles()
         except ValueError:
-- 
2.20.1


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