yum upgrade and selinux-policy-strict

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Wed Nov 7 16:19:26 UTC 2007


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Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> When doing a yum upgrade with selinux-policy-strict installed, the upgrade
> failed on a dependency error.
> 
> I suspect this is because strict policy is being subsumed into targeted
> policy in F8. In which case maybe selinux-policy-targeted should obsolete
> selinux-policy-strict going forward in F8.
> 
> In my case I had strict, mls and targeted installed and am running targeted,
> so I removed strict and mls and retried the upgrade and at least at first
> glance it seems to have worked.
> 
> I doubt this will bite many other people, but I figured posting it to
> fedora-list might make the issue more visible to peole who might have
> the problem before they try a yum upgrade, rather than fedora-selinux-list
> where they might look after having a problem.
> 
Yes this is an oversite.  selinux-policy-targeted should obsolete
selinux-policy-strict

I will update the next release of selinux-policy for f8.
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