On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Bill Campbell wrote: > I ran into a problem recently where I had installed the openpkg version of > postfix on a SuSE 8.1 system, and removed the system's postfix RPM which > required ``--force --nodeps'' to ignore other dependencies. Everything > worked fine until I used the SuSE system update function which promptly > reinstalled postfix to ``fix'' the unsatisfied dependencies.
As another way one might create a dummy MTA package for your vendor which provides the vendors dependencies as weel as the required links into a specified OpenPKG instance. Maybe we need a dedicated contrib section for all of those RedHat, SuSE, Debian, etc distros which contains suitable .rpm respectively .deb packages to fullfil specific vendor dependencies. -- Christoph Schug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cable & Wireless Deutschland - Landsberger Strasse 155 - D-80687 Muenchen ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
