Justin C. Lloyd wrote: > I've just switched over to using a self-built sendmail configuration. > In order to get this to work, I first had to force a removal of exim, > and therefore of the mail-transport-agent virtual package. Now, I > can't upgrade:
[...] > E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. > What is the proper way, other than using a standard Debian package, of > handling these situtations? I have this same sort of issue with > building my own perl, but that's another can of worms... ,---- | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -p equivs | Package: equivs | Priority: extra | Section: admin | Installed-Size: 51 | Maintainer: Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Architecture: all | Version: 2.0.3 | Depends: perl | perl5, debhelper, dpkg-dev, devscripts, make, fakeroot | Filename: dists/sid/main/binary-i386/admin/equivs_2.0.3.deb | Size: 17936 | MD5sum: 72b831ac937fb66400c5b23777db0b29 | Description: Circumventing Debian package dependencies | This is a dummy package which can be used to create Debian | packages, which only contain dependency information. | . | This way, you can make the Debian package management | system believe that equivalents to packages on which other | packages do depend on are actually installed. | . `---- Thomas Weinbrenner -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GMD/CS d- s+:+ a->? C++ UL+++ P+ L+++ E+ W N+++ !o K w--- O M? V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t+ 5++ X !R(++) tv+ b+++ DI D G++ e>+++ h! !r y ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
