[Bug 1020292] Review Request: bitcoin - Peer-to-peer digital currency

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1020292



--- Comment #11 from Warren Togami <wtogami@xxxxxxxxx> ---
Currently bitcoind is not well suited to operate as a system service.

The user's bitcoind as a RPC client could hypothetically operate to control the
system bitcoind, but that isn't true of the user's bitcoin-qt.  This makes
operating bitcoind as a system service confusingly disjunct from the user's
bitcoind and bitcoin-qt.  The user's bitcoind and bitcoin-qt are meant to
operate on the same data files and wallet while a system bitcoind.

bitcoin 0.9 is planned to have key improvements that make it more suitable to
use as system service.

Perhaps bitcoin 0.8 as packaged should ...

* Include a README.FEDORA in %doc explaining the current state of the package,
how it is meant to be used.
* The entire selinux policy design should be thought through carefully to be
able to handle the future expected uses of bitcoin.
* To handle today's normal use, the selinux policies should confine and permit
usage of the standard ~/.bitcoin directory in homedirs.
* Perhaps the selinux policy should additionally handle the system service
directories, even though it isn't commonly used yet.  Would that within the
same policy weaken protection of the system service?
* For now do not include the .service file.  That would misleadingly suggest
that running it as a system service is the normal method of operation.  Wait
until changes come in 0.9 then reassess the situation.
* Put the .service file in installed examples documented by README.FEDORA so
people know how to use the unsupported method of operation for now if they
really want it.

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