Hi Alessandro, Alessandro Vesely via Dng writes:
> Hi all, > > when I switched to Chimaera, one of the difficulties was an > /etc/selinux directory left over since several years ago. After boot > with the new system, X didn't want to start. It said something about > selinux, so I found the leftover and startx worked again. > > Now I checked what selinux packages are installed, and find > libselinux1. If i try to remove it, I get errors like: > > :~# apt-get purge libselinux1 > [... snip ...] > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > [... snip ...] > tar : PreDepends: libselinux1 (>= 3.1~) but it is not going to be installed > E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by > held packages. > > Running `apt-cache rdepends libselinux1` reports lots of essential > packages. Is that correct? The answer is just an `apt-cache show $pkg` away for any of those packages :-) > Perhaps all what they need is to call is_selinux_enabled() from > libselinux.so.1. Does it make sense? Dunno about that but > Did we have it on Beowulf? Yes. I just checked on my Beowulf laptop and e.g. tar and sed both declare a Pre-Depends: on libselinux1. Since these two are both Essential packages, libselinux1 is required on Beowulf. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
