[root@jaydee tmp]# python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Sep 30 2008, 15:41:38)
[GCC 4.3.2 20080917 (Red Hat 4.3.2-4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os, tempfile, shutil, subprocess
>>> import selinux # try/except block around this to see if the issue will happen
>>> temp_fd, a_temp_file = tempfile.mkstemp()
>>> shutil.move(a_temp_file,'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/broken.egg')
>>> # Don't know how to do this in Python
... subprocess.call(("restorecon", "-nv", "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/broken.egg"))
restorecon reset /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/broken.egg context unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0->system_u:object_r:lib_t:s0
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>>> # But I do know how to fix them in python
... selinux.restorecon("/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/broken.egg")
>>> # No more output because the context is now correct
... subprocess.call(("restorecon", "-nv", "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/broken.egg"))
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>>> # Calling it if context was already correct because user had an insane selinux policy does no harm either
... selinux.restorecon("/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/broken.egg")
>>> os.close(temp_fd)
>>> os.remove("/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/broken.egg")
>>> quit()