Bug 879611

Ok, it's a bug in rpm.

The selinux-policy has in BR m4 and also in Requires. See requires from koji builds:
rpm -qp --requires selinux-policy-3.11.1-55.fc18.noarch.rpm 
/bin/awk
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/usr/bin/sha512sum
config(selinux-policy) = 3.11.1-55.fc18
policycoreutils >= 2.1.13-34
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1

rpm -qp --requires selinux-policy-3.10.0-161.fc17.noarch.rpm 
/bin/awk
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/usr/bin/sha512sum
checkpolicy >= 2.1.9-4
config(selinux-policy) = 3.10.0-161.fc17
libsemanage >= 2.0.46-6
m4
policycoreutils >= 2.1.9-4
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1

See? m4 is not in f18 build.

I agree that specfile is meesy there are macros and missing commas, but it should work. If there is really a bug in rpm, then it could break many rebuilds and finding the root problem won't be easy.

BuildRequires: python gawk checkpolicy >= %{CHECKPOLICYVER} m4 policycoreutils-python >= %{POLICYCOREUTILSVER} bzip2
Requires(pre): policycoreutils >= %{POLICYCOREUTILSVER} libsemanage >= 2.1.8-3
Requires(post): /bin/awk /usr/bin/sha512sum
Requires: checkpolicy >= %{CHECKPOLICYVER} m4

Err... how does comparing two entirely different versions of a package make it rpm bug? m4 is listed as a build-require of selinux-policy, and build-requires do not (and must not) automatically become runtime dependencies.

[pmatilai@localhost selinux-policy]$ fedpkg switch-branch f18
Switched to branch 'f18'
[pmatilai@localhost selinux-policy]$ grep m4 selinux-policy.spec 
BuildRequires: python gawk checkpolicy >= %{CHECKPOLICYVER} m4 policycoreutils-devel >= %{POLICYCOREUTILSVER} bzip2 
[pmatilai@localhost selinux-policy]$ fedpkg switch-branch f17
Switched to branch 'f17'
[pmatilai@localhost selinux-policy]$ grep m4 selinux-policy.spec 
BuildRequires: python gawk checkpolicy >= %{CHECKPOLICYVER} m4 policycoreutils-python >= %{POLICYCOREUTILSVER} bzip2 
Requires: checkpolicy >= %{CHECKPOLICYVER} m4 
[pmatilai@localhost selinux-policy]$

There's the difference... whether intentional or not I've no idea.

I'm sorry, I look into master and f17 branch, which both contain m4 in BR and Requires. It looked like rpm is incorrectly parsing the specfile.

So, m4 is missing in Requires only in f18 branch. Could someone fix it?

Fixed in elinux-policy-3.11.1-57.fc18.noarch

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19

selinux-policy-3.12.1-28.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-5045/selinux-policy-3.12.1-28.fc19

Package selinux-policy-3.12.1-28.fc19:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing selinux-policy-3.12.1-28.fc19'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-5045/selinux-policy-3.12.1-28.fc19
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

selinux-policy-3.12.1-28.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.