Problem with "yum update" in FC6: Error missing dependency

[Tony Molloy]

On Monday 13 November 2006 17:59, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Tony Molloy wrote:
> > On Friday 10 November 2006 12:46, Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) (US SSA) 
wrote:
> >> I've been seeing this for the past couple of days....
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From:	fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of
> >> joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de Sent:	Fri 11/10/2006 04:39 AM
> >> To:	For users of Fedora Core releases
> >> Cc:
> >> Subject:	Problem with "yum update" in FC6: Error missing dependency
> >>
> >> "yum update" fails in FC6 today:
> >>
> >> --> Processing Dependency: policycoreutils-newrole >= 1.30.29-1 for
> >> package: selinux-policy-strict
> >> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> >> Error: Missing Dependency: policycoreutils-newrole >= 1.30.29-1 is
> >> needed by package selinux-policy-strict
> >>
> >> Similar experiences?
> >>
> >> Regards
> >
> > Yes I've been seeing that for a few days so I exclude selinux from my
> > update.
> >
> >
> > Error: Missing Dependency: policycoreutils-newrole >= 1.30.29-1 is
> > needed by package selinux-policy-strict
> > Error: Missing Dependency: policycoreutils-newrole >= 1.30.29-1 is
> > needed by package selinux-policy-mls
> >
> > But policycoreutils-1.30.30-1 is installed
> >
> > [root at keano ~]# rpm -qa | grep policycoreutils
> > policycoreutils-1.30.30-1
>
> It's after policycoreutils-newrole, not policycoreutils.
>
> Unless you're an SELinux enthusiast, you're almost certainly running
> the targeted policy (or none at all) and don't actually need the mls
> and strict policies, so a quick fix for this would be to remove them:
>
> # yum remove selinux-policy-strict selinux-policy-mls
>
> Paul.

Should have spotted that. Anyway it was sorted out a few days ago and 
updates are going fine.

Tony
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Tony Molloy.

System Manager.
Dept. of Comp. Sci.
University of Limerick