Hi, everyone.

I am just wondering about something that is going on with rpmdrake.
My boss just came by asking about the effect the fetchmail update might
have on a problem that we have with kmail. (email with attachments get lost
in the aether when sent by kmail, but work fine when sent with mutt.)

Anyway, I told him that I didn't think fetchmail was installed since when I
did the updates this morning (fetchmail and xinetd) only xinetd came up
to update. Just to be sure, I did a 'rpm -q fetchmail' and got
fetchmail-5.7.4-5mdk
as a result.

I was sure I did not see this this morning, but maybe the server wasn't
updated when I got to it, so I started rpmdrake (as root) and hit
reload lists. Nothing new came up.  So I switched over to the install side and
looked for fetchmail there.

Listed as installed was:
fetchmail                5.7.4-5.1mdk
fetchmail                5.7.4-5mdk
fetchmail-daemon   5.7.4-5mdk
fetchmail-daemon   5.7.4-5mdk
fetchmailconf          5.7.4-5.1mdk
fetchmailconf          5.7.4-5mdk

So I have the rpm command telling me one thing,
rpmdrake telling me two things, and
I am still sure that I did not apply the fetchmail update
this morning.

Are there two separate databases for packages?
Is there any danger in mixing the update methods?

Thanks,
Jason Chaffey

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