Broken scriptlets - will they be fixed by test1?

[John Ellson]

Jim Cornette wrote:
>
> Anyway, many programs had broken scriptlets. The list of problem 
> packages was quite long. I ran rpm -Uvh <package> --noscripts on the 
> broken scriptlet packages and am aware that this probably negatively 
> impacted the correct installation for these packages. Of course using 
> -ivh --noscripts on the kernel was useless. :-)

Jim,

My theory is that these failures are caused by new policies in selinux 
not permitting some of the things
that %postun scripts tried to do in older rpms.

I had similar problems, but only on the subset of my systems that had 
"enforcing"
set in /etc/selinux/config.     I changed this to "permissive", 
rebooted, and was then able to clean
up the problematic rpms.   

I bothers me a lot that the added security features of selinux have the 
effect of causing random
breakages with unobvious cause.

John