Unblock Avahi by default (for the Desktop live CDs)

[Bastien Nocera]

On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 17:45 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 01:38:05PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 16:11 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
> > > Perhaps I misread the original comment - but it was the suggestion of 
> > > having avahi running by default.
> > > 
> > > Do you mean having that be the case from the livecd or from the package 
> > > itself.
> > > 
> > > If the former, then you're right it's a side issue. I thought the latter 
> > > was being discussed which is why I brought up that report.
> > 
> > I think both are being discussed somewhat.  It'd be nice to do it
> > everywhere, so that the regular install does match somewhat the livecd
> > case, but as a fallback, just doing it on the livecd is less
> > contentious.  I'd certainly like to see it on the livecd, and then I'd
> > also like to see us work toward having it on regular installs too, in a
> > way that will keep most parties happy.
> 
> I don't know if this is related to Avahi or not, but with the default 
> firewall rules I can't see my friend's printers shared via his Mac 
> system.  As soon as I turn off the firewall, the printers show up in 
> the GNOME printing dialog.  It would be nice if this just worked 
> correctly out-of-the-box and in the LiveCD case without needing to 
> fiddle with firewall rules.

This isn't the only thing that doesn't work by default, see:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/Whiteboards/Firewall

Opening up avahi's port is a first step, having better firewall support
in applications is something I'm discussing with a few people (including
the system-config-firewall maintainer).

Cheers