On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 10:58:45AM +0100, Christoph Schug wrote: >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.
That's essentially what I'm proposing, and will be testing today. Given that I had problems yesterday attempting to build the ``binary'' RPM using the system's /bin/rpm program as an unpriviledged user, I plan to include the specfile as part of the openpkg package, and do an ``/bin/rpm -bb $specfile'' and then install the resultant binary package in the openpkg package's ``%pre'' section. >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. It would probably be useful to have some standard macro(s) available to identify the host system and its packaging arrangement. This could be useful in writing specfiles. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government -- and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.'' EDWARD ABBEY (1927-1989) ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
