yum upgrade FC5->FC6 issues (Jim Cornette)

[Leonid Flaks]

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> Subject: yum upgrade FC5->FC6 issues
> From: Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com>
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: 10/26/2006 03:10 PM
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>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>  I ran into this problem with libsepol also today. I removed the db 
>> entry using rpm --justdb --nodeps for libsepol. After removing the 
>> database entry, I ran yum install libsepol which pulled in the glibc 
>> libraries.
>> Afterwards, yum -y update took care of the rest. (of course I ran 
>> from a terminal because the GUI is gonna get killed at some point 
>> during the upgrade. It did, But I was at the login screen, so it did 
>> not effect me being in runlevel 5)
>>  Using a terminal window in the GUI will leave you with about 1000 or 
>> so multiple entries in the database.
>> Removing mozilla with yum was also needed on the system which took 
>> out yelp and a few other packages which needed mozilla previously. 
>> You can add yelp back post upgrade without a lot of trouble.
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>> Previously I thought of yum erase libsepol but it wanted to remove 
>> quite a few packages. I decided to do the above instead. I did not 
>> have errors when removing VFlib2 with rpm. It is not on FC6, so it 
>> will not reinstall. The other two errors listed did not effect my 
>> system.
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>> Expect for this to take some time to complete. It took me about 3 
>> hours on guess-timation I copied the DVD rpms over to the hard drive 
>> core repository, downloaded the updates and testing repos to their 
>> local repositories before upgrading. This was a one shot deal, no 
>> re-upgrading needed.
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>> Jim
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> I was really trying hard not to muck with the integrity of the rpm 
> database. I always assume that if I have been a good boy and not 
> mucked with it it knows more than I do.
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> So, I started looking for why libsepol-devel kept reappearing. I ran 
> the "yum upgrade" again and captured the output so I could look at it. 
> (i.e. yum upgrade | tee upgrade.log). I found that libselinux-devel 
> was calling for it. I then yum removed libselinux-devel and all of the 
> problems went away.
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> I will muck with the repository when I have to but it is only after a 
> lot of research and determining that it is my only choice.
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I think the reason for this problem with libsepol is the version number. 
FC5 has (after all updates) version 1.12.28-1.fc5. FC6 has version 
1.12.27-1 both for libsepol and libsepol-devel. Here is my  situation. I 
was doing yum upgrade FC5->FC6.
FC5 had libselinux-devel installed. New libselinux-devel requires 
lisepol-devel. The version of this package on FC6 requires in turn 
libsepol version 1.12.27-1, but I have libsepol 1.12.28-1.fc5 already 
and it was not going to be upgraded to a lower version number.
So yum is confused and we have dependency issue. In my case I removed 
lidsepol package from FC5 with --nodeps option, copied the file 
/lib/libsepol.so.1 back from another system and then did yum upgrade. It 
would have been easier to just save a copy of the file somewhere on the 
system, but it was too late at that point. Looks like the version of 
libsepol and libsepol-devel should be changed to something higher then 
version on FC5 to avoid this confussion. Did anyone checked bugzilla on 
that?
Searchig for fc - version6 - libsepol turned nothing.

Hope that note will help somebody.

Leon