Problem with "yum update" in FC6: Error missing dependency

[Paul Howarth]

Tony Molloy wrote:
> On Friday 10 November 2006 12:46, Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) (US SSA) wrote:
>> I've been seeing this for the past couple of days....
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of
>> joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de Sent:	Fri 11/10/2006 04:39 AM
>> To:	For users of Fedora Core releases
>> Cc:
>> Subject:	Problem with "yum update" in FC6: Error missing dependency
>>
>> "yum update" fails in FC6 today:
>>
>> --> Processing Dependency: policycoreutils-newrole >= 1.30.29-1 for
>> package: selinux-policy-strict
>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>> Error: Missing Dependency: policycoreutils-newrole >= 1.30.29-1 is
>> needed by package selinux-policy-strict
>>
>> Similar experiences?
>>
>> Regards
> 
> Yes I've been seeing that for a few days so I exclude selinux from my 
> update.
> 
> 
> Error: Missing Dependency: policycoreutils-newrole >= 1.30.29-1 is needed 
> by package selinux-policy-strict
> Error: Missing Dependency: policycoreutils-newrole >= 1.30.29-1 is needed 
> by package selinux-policy-mls
> 
> But policycoreutils-1.30.30-1 is installed
> 
> [root at keano ~]# rpm -qa | grep policycoreutils
> policycoreutils-1.30.30-1

It's after policycoreutils-newrole, not policycoreutils.

Unless you're an SELinux enthusiast, you're almost certainly running the 
targeted policy (or none at all) and don't actually need the mls and 
strict policies, so a quick fix for this would be to remove them:

# yum remove selinux-policy-strict selinux-policy-mls

Paul.