[K12OSN] some apt package build errors (still)

[Eric Harrison]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Gavin Chester wrote:

> A few weeks ago I reported some errors with apt that were partly
> answered and fixed at the time (primarily my own clumsy ignorance at the
> time).  However, I have two errors that were present in my first report
> and which have persisted through three instances of 'apt-get dist-
> upgrade', each spaced about a week apart.  I'm no closer to seeing a
> solution to these, so if anyone can shed light on why I keep getting
> these errors when apt tries to install upgrades:
>
>
> raidtools              ###########################################
> [ 15%]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /sbin/mkraid: cpio:
> lsetfilecon failed - Invalid argument

I googled for "lsetfilecon failed" and it appears to be related to
SELinux. Just for kicks, can you use yum and/or up2date and see if the
error goes away?

 	up2date -i raidtools
 	yum install raidtools

I'm curious to know if SELinux is aware of up2date/yum/rpm and lets 
those utilites update packages that would otherwise be blocked. (but
not curious enough to stop what I'm doing and check the SELinux 
policy ;-)

> gimp                   ###########################################
> [ 54%]
> File '/usr/share/applications/fedora-scribus.desktop' contains invalid
> MIME type 'scd,scd.gz,sla,sla.gz' that contains invalid characters

This is an annoyance in the scribus package. Since it has not been fixed
up-stream, I'll probably patch it for K12LTSP.

-Eric