yumex repeatedly upgrading openoffice.org-core-2.0.2-5.11.2 and accompanying files

[Gene Heskett]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 22:49 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> I see yumex is busy downloading and installing it for the second time.
>>> Thats a repeat of the 140 megabytes it downloaded and installed about 24 
>>> hours ago.
>>>
>>> Any Idea why?
>>>
>> SELinux has interfered with the %post and %pre scriptlets contained 
>> within the rpm installation packages before with pup and yum itself in 
>> the past.
>>
>> try running 'setenforce 0' before running the yumex updating program. 
>> The scriptlets should run successfully when SELinux only warns instead 
>> of denies.
>>
>> %pre scriptlet failures usually kill the updating program. %post 
>> scriptlet errors usually report the program was installed but never 
>> actually complete the successful installation of the programs.
>>
>> Filing a report related to yumex and a mention of an SELinux problem 
>> might help get yumex and SELinux working together instead of in separate 
>> directions would be possible after the problem(s) corrected.
> 
> I thought this issue was fixed a long time ago. Gene, do you have the
> latest selinux-policy and yumex packages installed?
> 
> In order to run scriptlets properly, yumex needs to have the rpm_exec_t
> SELinux file context:
> 
> # semanage fcontext -l | grep yumex
> /usr/share/yumex/yumex                             regular file
> system_u:object_r:rpm_exec_t:s0
> 
> So /usr/share/yumex/yumex should be rpm_exec_t; you can use:
> 
> $ ls -lZ /usr/share/yumex/yumex
> 
> to verify if this is the case.
> 
> Paul.
> 
The system is fully uptodate except for the madwifi stuff which I don't 
need.  And:
[root at diablo log]# ls -lZ /usr/share/yumex/yumex
-rwxr-xr-x  root root system_u:object_r:rpm_exec_t 
/usr/share/yumex/yumex

so it is not doing any further repeats.



-- 
Cheers, Gene