>What I would like to do is to be able to let dselect / dpkg THINK that >what is installed is the version that it expects, quite possibly by >editing /var/lib/dpkg/status if necessary. This is a requirement simply >because with a lot of stuff, dselect/dpkg _THINKS_ the installation is >broken when in reality it is not, it just doesn't have the bits that >dpkg/dselect thinks it should have.
This might be too simple, but what about a dummy-package that "Provides/Replaces: mail-transport-agent" ? kind regards / mit freundlichen gruessen Andreas Neukoetter --- "On the other side of the screen it all looks so easy." (Tron, 1982)
