Re: dependency problems w/mailscanner

[Bret Hughes <bhughes elevating com>]

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 20:27, Kevin MacNeil wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:03:18PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote:
>  
> > Does MailScanner work or are you just worried about the dependency
> > errors? Did you use Julian's install.sh script to install it?
> 
> I just installed the MailScanner rpm file. It works fine, but the
> dependency errors are keeping apt-get dist-upgrade from working as it
> should. It wants to uninstall MailScanner to make the problem go away.
> 
OK I get it.  This is one of the reasons I like to keep everything
possible rpm based, including perl modules.

As I see it you have two reasonable choices:

1. build and install the perl-MIME-tools rpm this can get funky as you
know. This is still the method I prefer.

2 dl the src.rpm for MailScanner and tweak the specfile by removing the
dependency for perl-MIME-tools, rebuild the Mailscanner rpm and install
it.

There may be a way to tell apt to ignore the deps for a specific package
but I really do not know what that is.



Bret