On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 04:59 +0300, Alexey Loukianov wrote:

Greetings, centos.

Looks like postinstall scriplet in CentOS4.4 distro requires /sbin/restorecon utility, which in turn resides in policycoreutils package. Meanwhile, up2date don't require policycoreutils. It seems to that there is an error in dependencies for up2date.

That is one of about a million (OK, maybe not a million :P) of what I like to call "hidden requires".

These sort of things exist throughout the EL4 code base, but since CentOS builds from upstream sources ... and since we want to remain 100% compatibility where ever possible, we can't usually change these kind of issues in CentOS directly.

However, since up2date is a package that has to have major modifications anyway, I think we might be able to add that require (if required ... I'll study the SPEC later, though initial an peek confirms what you say).

Thanks, Johnny Hughes