** Reply to message from Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 01 Sep 2003 21:01:52 -0500
> 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. http://www.quantumlinux.com/~kevin/rpmpan/ The above may be a useful link for those wishing to install perl modules via RPM. jb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
