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[07/10] policycoreutils: fixfiles: un-document `-R -a` option

Message ID 20170507110556.7740-7-alan.christopher.jenkins@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
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Alan Jenkins May 7, 2017, 11:05 a.m. UTC
`fixfiles -R -a` is much less useful than it was made to sound, because -R
now works recursively.  Therefore `fixfiles -R -a` relabels every file on
the system, multiple times.  On my system it took over 5 times as long as
plain `fixfiles` (which takes about a minute).
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 policycoreutils/scripts/fixfiles.8 | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/policycoreutils/scripts/fixfiles.8 b/policycoreutils/scripts/fixfiles.8
index 0ec18a8..7a00bc3 100644
--- a/policycoreutils/scripts/fixfiles.8
+++ b/policycoreutils/scripts/fixfiles.8
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@  Clear /tmp directory with out prompt for removal.
 
 .TP 
 .B \-R rpmpackagename[,rpmpackagename...]
-Use the rpm database to discover all files within the specified packages and restore the file contexts.  (\-a will get all files in the RPM database).
+Use the rpm database to discover all files within the specified packages and restore the file contexts.
 .TP
 .B \-C PREVIOUS_FILECONTEXT
 Run a diff on  the PREVIOUS_FILECONTEXT file to the currently installed one, and restore the context of all affected files.