Comment 2 for bug 245984

This is not really an Smart's issue, but a specific selinux config issue instead.

What happens in that all RPM transactions run as a child process of the "/usr/bin/smart". Since Smart is not natively shipped by Fedora, the context is not correctly marked. Check this:

# ls -lZ /usr/bin/yum
-rwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:rpm_exec_t:s0 /usr/bin/yum

# ls -lZ /usr/bin/smart
-rwxr-xr-x root root ? /usr/bin/smart

# chcon system_u:object_r:rpm_exec_t:s0 /usr/bin/smart

# ls -lZ /usr/bin/smart
-rwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:rpm_exec_t:s0 /usr/bin/smart

This is all about context: Smart calls RPM libs, so as Yum. RPM works fine under for Yum under Fedora, because it has the correct context set, so all you need to do is make Smart enter the same context.

In order to confirm, please, run the chcon command above, and try again.