RH8 --> FC2 Upgrade done

[Rick Stevens]

Graeme Nichols wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 03:19, Rick Stevens wrote:
> <snip>
> 
>>You can add more mirrors as you wish.  To do a full update:
>>
>>	# yum -y update
>>
>>It'll take a bit of time, but it'll update your system fully.  yum is a
>>"good thing".
>>
>>The URHILW (http://www.rhil.net) has NTFS modules for FC1 and FC2, too.
>>
>>
>>>Again, thanks very much.
>>
>>No problem, Graeme.
> 
> 
> Hi Rick, I had to re-install yum because the special version of yum for
> updating RH8 on Fedora Legacy wouldn't run on FC2. The version I
> installed was yum-2.0.7-1.noarch.rpm for FC1.

What didn't work with the FC2 version?

> It installed and ran OK.
> 
> When I ran yum to install gnucash 'yum install gnucash' it downloaded a
> heap of headers then eventually it popped up the message 'Running test
> transaction:" Then up came the message
> '/etc/security/selinux/file_contents: No such File or Directory'.
> following that message it popped up 'Test Transaction complete: Success'
> then followed '/etc/security/selinux/file_contents: No such File or
> Directory' again.
 >
> The install of gnucash completed OK and gnucash works fine. My trivia
> question for the day is: "What is /etc/security/selinux/file_contents"?

FC1 and FC2 have SELinux capabilities (Securty Enhanced Linux).  It's
disabled by default on both FC1 and FC2, although you can enable it if
you wish.

The file mentioned is part of that and the lack of it isn't fatal.  If
you're familiar with tripwire, you can think of that file as sort of
like the tripwire database of file content signatures.

For a good background on SELinux on FC2, see

	http://people.redhat.com/kwade/fedora-docs/selinux-faq-en/
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