[OT] who maintains aptitude for rpm? (fwd)

[Wilfried Weissmann]

Panu Matilainen wrote:
> What distribution (and version) are you using, and do you by any chance 
> have SELinux enabled? Scriptlets failing in aptitude but working in apt 
> *could* be explainable with SElinux context/type differences. The fact 
> that aptitude crashes because of that is obviously a bug of some sorts - 
> one possibility might be that it blindly assumes a package marked for 
> removal actually getting removed no matter what (if scriptlets fail 
> rpm's dont get removed!) and gets its bookkeeping wrong because of that 
> (or something like that). But that's just wild wild speculation, haven't 
> actually looked at aptitude code...

I have set the same type as defined in /usr/bin/apt-get and started 
aptitude from the console (no "su -"). Now the %postun scripts are 
executed, but aptitude still crashes. However the package was removed fine.
So SE Linux makes a difference, but we still do not know if the sigsegv 
is SE Linux related.

bye,
Wilfried

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