Smart and SELinux (Fedora 7)

Gustavo Niemeyer gustavo at niemeyer.net
Thu Aug 9 09:49:35 PDT 2007


Greetings,

> Does this do any harm to the data used by Smart or damage any rpms? Is
> there a way to avoid this behaviour?
(...)
> SELinux is preventing the /sbin/depmod from using potentially mislabeled
> files (/tmp/tmpzACEzq-smart-rpm-out.txt (deleted)).

This looks bizarre to me.  I have no idea about what depmod is trying to
do with that text file.

> Btw: Thanks for Smart; a few quirks, but otherwise great.

Thanks.

> Btw2: Is there an overview somewhere of all keys (and values) that smart
> recognizes in the .channel files? I have not found one yet.

Yes, smart channel --help gives you the accepted channel types, and then
you can do smart channel --help-type <type> on any of these types.


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Gustavo Niemeyer
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