Bug 530353

Why not just add the following to your script.

/usr/sbin/semanage port -l | grep ^jabber_interserver_port_t.*tcp.*5347 >
/dev/null
if [ $? .ne 0 ]; then
 /usr/sbin/semanage port -a -t jabber_interserver_port_t -p tcp 5347
fi

Oh, I could definitely do that. I just felt that if semanage was able to do it
directly, it would decrease race condition when the value is deleted between
those two semanage invocations, plus the scripts calling semanage might be a
bit simpler (one line instead of cca four).

So it's just about making it easier for callers, not adding functionality which
would not be available otherwise.

The problem is this is checked in a lowlevel library.   And I could see the justification of this in all of the semanage calls.  

Since tools like useradd don't ave this, I think it would be a lot of work to do this for semanage.

useradd pwalsh
useradd: user 'pwalsh' already exists

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

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