yum and up2date broken

[Paul Nasrat]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 10:33:46PM +0100, Arnaldo Bento wrote:
> 
You are correct it is the version mismatch between rpm (rpmlib specifically)
and rpm python causing this.

> Preparing...                ###########################################
> [100%]
> error: setexeccon(root:staff_r:rpm_script_t) fails from context
> "root:staff_r:staff_t": Invalid argument

Note that you need to be sysadm_r before running rpm (see the RELEASE-NOTES for details on selinux)

as root
newrole -r sysadm_r -t sysadm_t
rpm -Uvh rpm-4.3.1-0.1.i386.rpm

id -Z will tell you what context you are in, you should always be sysadm_r
for running rpm, yum, up2date, etc.

Paul