Hi Folks, I wanted to get rid of exim install qmail. I didn't want to use the qmail src deb, because it's only 1.02, so I got the source and compiled it myself.
Now, obviously a lot of things are going to complain loudly if I get rid of my MTA, so acting on something I saw on the list, I used the equivs package to provide an equiv for mail-transport-agent. I think I did the quivs correctly. In /etc/equivs.conf I have: $ cat /etc/equivs.conf mail-transport-agent I installed the resulting deb file. When I have a look at the deb file in mc it says "Provides: mail-transport-agent". I uninstalled --force-deps exim and installed the equivs deb. It all seemed to work nicely. Yet when I recently ran apt-get update, this is what I got: $ sudo apt-get update Get http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au stable/non-US Packages Get http://snowcrash.tdyc.com slink/rkrusty Packages Get http://www.debian.org unstable/main Packages Get http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au dists/proposed-updates/ Packages Get http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au stable/contrib Packages Get http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au stable/main Packages Get http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au stable/non-free Packages Fetched 2266k in 1m57s (19.4k/s) Updating package file cache...done Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...dependency error You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet dependencies: maildrop: Depends:mail-transport-agent anacron: Depends:smail Depends:sendmail Depends:mail-transport-agent mutt: Depends:mail-transport-agent mailx: Depends:smail Depends:mail-transport-agent elm-me+: Depends:mail-transport-agent mailto: Depends:mail-transport-agent $ Why am I getting all those unresolved dependencies? I thought that was what equivs was for? Any suggestions? What have I done wrong? -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the casket... EmpireNET | - TBMG, "Dead"
