RH8 --> FC2 Upgrade done

[Graeme Nichols]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 03:30, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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?

The modified version of yum provided for the RH8 legacy updates.

I installed the latest version of yum I could find, an FC1 version,
which works just fine on FC2.

> 
> > 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/

Thanks Rick. Makes interesting reading. I think I will enable it and see
how it goes.

Regards,

Graeme.