On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:00:54AM +0200, John L. Fjellstad wrote: | I use equivs to replace debian packages, for lots of reasons (need a newer | version of a package, or in case of mta, I like to have better control of how | the qmail package is installed). | | The problem is that the already installed debian package is not | removed when I try to install my debian package, and the system | complains about conflicts. | | For instance, I create my qmail package using the mta control file | in /usr/share/doc/equivs/examples. When I try to install the new | qmail package, it won't uninstall exim and install my qmail package. | If I uninstall exim first, then lots of other stuff gets uninstalled | (mailx etc). Right now, I do a force install on my qmail package, | and then uninstall exim, which works, but isn't an optimal way to do | it. | | What entries am I missing in the deb control file? I try adding | "Replaces" keyword, but it didn't have any effect.
You need to "Provide" mail-transport-agent in your dummy package.
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Microsoft DNS service terminates abnormally when it receives a response
to a dns query that was never made.
Fix information: run your DNS service on a different platform.
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