upgrading sendmail package when postfix installed
Hi! I have installed postfix from sources a while ago, and now there is a security update fro sendmail. As you probably know, I can not remove the sendmail package (although I'm not using it), because it would remove apache and many other packages wich are depending on a MTA. So can I fake the sendmail installation, so apt-get would see that sendmail has been upgraded, or do I have upgrade sendmail (for security reasons) and then re-install postfix all over again? Thanks! Daniel -- LeVA pgpGRZ6W2bkkj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: upgrading sendmail package when postfix installed
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 12:46, LeVA wrote: I have installed postfix from sources a while ago, and now there is a security update fro sendmail. As you probably know, I can not remove the sendmail package (although I'm not using it), because it would remove apache and many other packages wich are depending on a MTA. So can I fake the sendmail installation, so apt-get would see that sendmail has been upgraded, or do I have upgrade sendmail (for security reasons) and then re-install postfix all over again? Use equivs to create a fake package that provides mail-transport-agent, to keep the package management system happy. Then you won't need the sendmail package. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$apt-cache show equivs Package: equivs Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 132 Maintainer: Fabio Rafael da Rosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: all Version: 2.0.6-0.1 Depends: perl | perl5, debhelper, dpkg-dev, devscripts, make, fakeroot Filename: pool/main/e/equivs/equivs_2.0.6-0.1_all.deb Size: 18066 MD5sum: 0791bcf0d3e543bfeb147c1afdf42ac6 Description: Circumvent Debian package dependencies This package provides a tool to create Debian packages that only contain dependency information. . If a package P is not installed on the system, packages that depend on P cannot normally be installed. However, if equivalent functionality to P is known to be installed, this tool can be used to trick the Debian package management system into believing that package P is actually installed. . Another possibility is creation of a meta package. When this package contains a dependency as Depends: a, b, c, then installing this package will also select packages a, b and c. Instead of Depends, you can also use Recommends: or Suggests: for less demanding dependency. . Please note that this is a crude hack and if thoughtlessly used, it might possibly do damage to your packaging system. And please note as well that using it is not the recommended way of dealing with broken dependencies. Better file a bug report instead. -- Tot ziens, Bart-Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrading sendmail package when postfix installed
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 12:46:01PM +0200, LeVA wrote: I have installed postfix from sources a while ago, and now there is a security update fro sendmail. As you probably know, I can not remove the sendmail package (although I'm not using it), because it would remove apache and many other packages wich are depending on a MTA. So can I fake the sendmail installation, so apt-get would see that sendmail has been upgraded, or do I have upgrade sendmail (for security reasons) and then re-install postfix all over again? Put the sendmail package on hold, so that it is no longer upgraded or touched by apt at all. Just be sure that you never cause it to be run. The reference manual has an example of how to do this, or google will help: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-package.en.html I had to do this on one system to stop exim from being updated, even though it's running qmail. Steve -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrading sendmail package when postfix installed
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: because it would=20 remove apache and many other packages wich are depending on a MTA. So=20 can I fake the sendmail installation, so apt-get would see that=20 sendmail has been upgraded, or do I have upgrade sendmail (for security=20 reasons) and then re-install postfix all over again? Use equivs to create a package that supplies mail-transport-agent. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
