On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Martin Marques wrote:
> Quoting Eric Sisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > > > I'm on a RedHat 7.3 using postfix, and I found out that the only way to
> > have
> > > > mailman is installing sendmail.
> >
> > Not true. I'm running RedHat 7.3, mailman and postfix. In fact the
> > mailman website recommends postfix over sendmail. (at least the last
> > time I looked it did.)
>
> You're surelly using Simon's RPM, because with RedHats postfix rpm you would
> find this:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -e sendmail
> error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
> /usr/bin/newaliases is needed by mailman-2.0.13-1
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -q postfix
> postfix-1.1.7-2
>
> > > > Checking I found that the postfix rpm that
> > > > comes with RedHat doesn't provide /usr/bin/newaliases.
> > > > I found a bug report at bugzilla.redhat.com from last year, and there
> > isn't an
> > > > update for this bug, which is very easy to solve (just have to add the
> > > > provide to the rpm).
> >
> > On my server /usr/bin/newaliases is a symlink to "/usr/bin/newalias"
> > which is in turn a symlink to "/usr/bin/newaliases.postfix". You should
> > be able to create the necessary symlinks manually.
>
> Links don't matter. Postix is running great, with the postfix mailq, sendmail
> and newaliases. But if I want to install mailman I need to meet the
> dependencies, and one of those is to have /usr/bin/newaliases, which isn't in
> the list of provides that postfix has.
>
> Any way, I patched the spec file that comes with the rpm and I'm recompiling.
>
Mailman installs just fine with the stock redhat Postfix rpm. The
Postfix rpm creates a symlink for newaliases as part of the install
script. The Mailman rpm is happy with this, even though:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] download]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/newaliases
file /usr/bin/newaliases is not owned by any package
Mikkel
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