On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 3:25 AM, Jon Masters <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 09:13 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > >> > $ mount -o loop Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso /mnt >> > >> > And then one might legitimately expect to be able to copy the content >> > of /mnt over to e.g. /somewhere/fedora/9/i386 for NFS installs. But >> > suppose that one is running SELinux in enforcing mode, then this will >> > fail because the contexts differ in this operation. Then, one will >> > likely quickly become severely annoyed and frustrated with SELinux, >> > simply setting it permissive for the duration of the operation... > >> Why would the copy fail? cp should just work and set the files to the >> context of the destination directory. If this fails it is a bug. > > Ok, so there's a bug there then. Copying files from within an ISO image > was kind of the last straw in my willingness to keep SELinux enabled. It > hinders me at almost every turn from doing useful things with a Linux > desktop - I'm constantly amazed that Fedora persists in defaulting it > enabled, but that's a whole other rant. You can copy files from within an ISO mount. You cannot serve the files directly in the mount from HTTPd though. But copying definitely works. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
