debian bug#306798: SELinux security attributes can not be removed and

rdiff-backup should not fail when it fails to remove them from temp
files.  fix from Konrad Podloucky.


git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup@595 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109

trunk/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG

@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ moved to another device (and the inodes don't change).
 bug#13475: correct an UpdateError when backing up hardlinks with EAs
 and/or ACLs.
 
+debian bug#306798: SELinux security attributes can not be removed and
+rdiff-backup should not fail when it fails to remove them from temp
+files.  fix from Konrad Podloucky.
+
+
 New in v0.13.6 (2005/04/07)
 ---------------------------
 

trunk/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/eas_acls.py

@@ -74,7 +74,16 @@ class ExtendedAttributes:
 	def clear_rp(self, rp):
 		"""Delete all the extended attributes in rpath"""
 		for name in rp.conn.xattr.listxattr(rp.path):
-			rp.conn.xattr.removexattr(rp.path, name)
+			try:
+				rp.conn.xattr.removexattr(rp.path, name)
+			except IOError, exc:
+				# SELinux attributes cannot be removed, and we don't want
+				# to bail out or be too noisy at low log levels.
+				if exc[0] == errno.EACCES:
+					log.Log("Warning: unable to remove xattr %s from %s"
+						% (name, rp.path), 7)
+					continue
+				else: raise
 
 	def write_to_rp(self, rp):
 		"""Write extended attributes to rpath rp"""