On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 01:47:49PM +0200, Matthias Hentges wrote: > Hello Ron, > > Am Don, 2003-10-09 um 12.24 schrieb Ron Rademaker: > > Hello, > > > > I've installed a backport of exim4 for woody (because I want to use xasm > > and xasm needs exim 4), however this has caused some trouble. Namely > > pretty much any package that depends on exim (like mailscanner) thinks > > something is wrong and wants to completely remove my exim4 installation > > and reinstall exim. I want to know if it's possible to make apt think > > that exim4 provides exim so that everything will be back the way I want > > it. > > One way would be to recompile all packages which depend on exim and > replace the exim depency with exim4 (if the packages don't have problems > with the newer exim4 when compiling, that is). > > It's also trivial to generate a fake .deb of exim. I 've attached one to > this mail. The whole .deb consists of a Readme in /usr/share/docs.
OOI what/where is 'mkdeb'? It doesn't seem to be anything to do with 'equivs'. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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