On Tue, 05 Feb 2002 21:15:50 -0500
begin Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:
>
> After wrangling with Sendmail some more...I've decided to repost this
> one from a few days back.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Postifix on Redhat 7.2
> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 14:59:31 -0500
> From: Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> OK,
>
> I've always had a bugger working with sendmail, but I had almost
> immediate success when I experimented with postfix. Postfix however
> isn't included with RH7.2 W/S.
>
> I found an SRPM for postifix built by redhat, but it needs 'db4-devel'
> to build. Which was available from the same spot as the Postfix rpms.
> So I built all the db4 rpms, which obsolete/conflict with the installed
> db3 packages already there.
>
> db4-devel conflicts with db3-devel: (Sorry 'bout the wrap)
>
> # [root@innie i386]# rpm -ivh --test ./db4-devel-4.0.14-2.i386.rpm
> # Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
> # file /lib/libdb.so from install of db4-devel-4.0.14-2\
> conflicts with file from package db3-devel-3.2.9-4
> # file /usr/include/db.h from install of db4-devel-4.0.14-2\
> conflicts with file from package # db3-devel-3.2.9-4
> # file /usr/lib/libdb_cxx.so from install of db4-devel-4.0.14-2\
> conflicts with file from package db3-devel-3.2.9-4
>
> I can't remove db3 without causing problems:
>
> # [root@innie root]# rpm -e --test db3
> # error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
> # db3 = 3.2.9 is needed by db3-devel-3.2.9-4
> # db3 = 3.2.9 is needed by db3-utils-3.2.9-4
> # libdb-3.2.so is needed by perl-5.6.0-17
> # libdb-3.2.so is needed by sendmail-8.11.6-3
> # libdb-3.2.so is needed by python-1.5.2-35
> # libdb-3.2.so is needed by nss_ldap-172-2
> # libdb-3.2.so is needed by php-4.0.6-7
> # libdb-3.2.so is needed by db3-utils-3.2.9-4
> # libdb-3.2.so is needed by apache-1.3.22-2
> # libdb-3.2.so is needed by pam-0.75-19
>
> So, my question is:
>
> Can I safely force the db4-devel rpm to overwrite the db3-files it
> conflicts with?
>
> If not, what to do? [ Please don't say "learn sendmail" ;) ]
My suggestion would be to d/l the SRPM and rebuild postfix using db-3.2 on
your system now. If you can't, I'd find a test box (one you can break),
try the above, then run some apps that were built against 3.2 to see if
they segfault.
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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