Yum Extender

There is a selinux issues in Yum Extender 2.9.x in Fedora 12 (Beta) and F11.

It will give problems when installing new kernels

you will get messages like this

13:33:46 : YUM: /sbin/new-kernel-pkg: line 292: /sbin/depmod: Permission denied
13:34:05 : YUM: /usr/bin/ldd: line 118: /sbin/udevd: Permission denied

It is caused by /usr/share/yumex/yumex-yum-backend is not labeled correctly.

Run the following commands as root to fix it.

chcon system_u:object_r:rpm_exec_t:s0  /usr/share/yumex/yumex-yum-backend
restorecon -r /usr/share/yumex

I have requested it to added to standard SELinux policy in Fedora.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527528

To fix an already installed kernel in F12.

$ rpm -q kernel-PAE --scripts | grep -e '--install'
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel-PAE --mkinitrd --dracut --depmod --install 2.6.31.1-56.fc12.i686.PAE || exit $?

copy the /sbin/new-kernel-pkg command and run it as root.

/sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel-PAE --mkinitrd --dracut --depmod --install 2.6.31.1-56.fc12.i686.PAE

if you are using a non PAE system then substitute ‘kernel-PAE’ with ‘kernel’ in the rpm -q command.

Just added support for yum transaction history in yumex

Yum transaction history is available in yum-3.2.25 in the Fedora 12 Beta, it contains information of the packages processed in each historical transaction and give you the choice to redo and undo the transaction

Yet another Yum Extender release

Changes:

• Added ‘Right Click‘ menu to Repository Page
  • Persistent enable/disable of repo
  • Clean metadata etc.
• Added ‘–win-size’ command line option to set size of gui window and make it possible to make the window smaller for small displays (netbooks etc)
  • –win-size=800×600 will make the main gui window 800×600
• Updated translations (Big Thanks to translators)
• bugfixes

Get the source here

Fedora 12 / Rawhide package here

Fedora 11 packages here.

I have released a new version of Yum Extender (NextGen)

Changes:

• Added the ‘Select All’ button to updates view again
• Make group selection not remove already installed group packages
• Translation updates (Big Thanks to all translators.
• Also search in descriptions
• Other minor bug fixes.

Get the source here

Fedora 12 / Rawhide package here

Fedora 11 packages here.