yumex vs yum

[Jim Cornette]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 07:45 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
>> A.J. Bonnema wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I just installed FC5 without any big problems (ATI card aside).
>>>
>>>  From Yumex I found that installing some packages resulted in success && 
>>> these packages not being installed. Repeatedly.
>>> Using 'Yum install' the packages were successfully installed and the 
>>> rpm's were really installed.
>>>
>>> I was wondering whether any of you guys encountered this problem?
>>> Is it a bug? Should I report it?
>>>
>>> P.S. I am running AMD64 with the 64-bit version of FC5.
>>>
>>> Guus.
>>>
>> If you are using the yumex version from Extras, a bug report would be 
>> helpful to inform the developer / maintainer that there is a problem so 
>> it can be corrected.
>> I had a similar problem with pup during the development cycle. Reporting 
>> the problem resorted in a fix for the program. (Actually policies for 
>> SELinux related to the program.)
> 
> The yumex developer is already on this:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186076
> 
> Paul.
> 

Same problem, different program. Thanks for the link.

Meanwhile, the problem encountered using yumex which does not yet have a 
policy probably caused a lot of &post and &pre scriptlet errors on the 
system that yumex was run on.
The &post scriptlet errors are where the program is downloaded, fails 
before actual installation and probably does little damage to the 
system. The &pre scriptlet errors will cause the rpm database to show 
entries for the newly installed package as well as for the package being 
erased which is actually already removed from the system.

If someone is using yumex, setting setenforce 0 before upgrading and 
then setting setenforce back to 1 after completing the upgrade would be 
safer.

Hopefully the package will set the policies correctly in the future 
releases.

If users of yumex want to verify their systems do not have multiple 
versions installed, there is a post from Steve Grubb for a script to 
check for multiple versions on the system. Also I put the script up on 
the fedora wiki with minor modifications called sg-dupes-mv.sh (Steve 
Grub, check for duplicate/multiversion packages.)
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JimCornette

When you run the script, it will not show normally multi versions like 
kernel and public keys. I believe it will take into account i386 and 64 
bit legitimate duplicate packages. The resulting output will flag what 
packages need attention and you can correct from there with the information.

Jim