Unblock Avahi by default (for the Desktop live CDs)

[Daniel J Walsh]

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On 04/14/2010 08:48 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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
> 
SELinux needs to understand any changes you are making also.  We need to
be very careful with these changes.
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