Fedora Core 6 Test Update: selinux-policy-2.4.5-3.fc6

[Daniel J Walsh]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> bloch at verdurin.com wrote:
>> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Daniel Walsh wrote:
>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Fedora Test Update Notification
>>> FEDORA-2006-1293
>>> 2006-11-27
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Product     : Fedora Core 6
>>> Name        : selinux-policy
>>> Version     : 2.4.5
>>> Release     : 3.fc6
>>> Summary     : SELinux policy configuration
>>> Description :
>>> SELinux Reference Policy - modular.
>>>
>>
>> I can't be completely sure, but I believe applying this update caused me
>> to be logged out of my X session.  At least it appears to have been the
>> last update applied according to /var/log/yum.log, before I was logged
>> out.
>>
> This update caused an exit code of minus one for me which just hung. I 
> did this update from a terminal.
>
> When I tried to cleanup the aftermath, I noticed that the update makes 
> a new version directory for every instance with the version 
> information. This does not seem needed since this is a one instance 
> package.
> Anyway, when cleaning up, I had to remove the directory and content 
> where the old package was located by version after removing the DB entry.
> I think that simply the directory without versioning numbering would 
> be fine. the aftermath noted ne to this factor. Most packages 
> overwrite a non-versioned directory and do not have a specific version 
> to remove. I do think that mozilla did this also which might not have 
> been needed, since only one version is installable.
> Anyway, I recovered from  the disaster but doubt the recovery was 100% 
> clean due to versioned directories.
>
> Jim
>

I do not know what you are talking about.  What directory is versioned?