RPM apt

[Mark Street]

Well, let's put it this way.  When I run apt-get upgrade I get the
dependency error for a missing sendmail package.  When I run the following
it only looks for the binary.... which is...
 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /var/qmail/bin/sendmail  Funny it does not require
impad, which I also run on the machine.

Not a big deal as far as tweaking the database, I just wanted to see how
apt-rpm works in the whole scheme of things.

squirrelmail package is from sourceforge.

 rpm -q --requires squirrelmail
apache >= 1.3.19
php >= 4.0.4
perl
tmpwatch >= 2.8
/usr/sbin/sendmail
/bin/sh
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
/bin/sh
/usr/bin/env


On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, tengel wrote:

> FYI, the proper provides is "smtpdaemon" for most stuff, allowing you to interchange qmail/exim//postfix/sendmail.  Try that instead, perhaps.
>
> -te
>
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 01:12:34PM -0700, Eric Eisenhart wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 12:28:02PM -0700, Mark Street wrote:
> > > This is one of the drawbacks/strengths/weakness of a "database" holding the
> > > keys to these package tools.  I could install sendmail, then break it by
> > > moving the binaries out of the way and putting the symlink back to qmail's
> > > sendmail wrapper.  Then on OS upgrade having to go back in and break it
> > > again.   Oh well....
> >
> > Well, I can think of 2 solutions:
> > 1) Install qmail via an RPM instead of by hand from source.  If you build
> > the RPM by hand from source it's almost the same thing.
> > 2) Install a "dummy" RPM that satisfies the sendmail dependency without
> > doing anything else.  On Debian a great example would be the
> > "java-virtual-machine-dummy" package.
> >
> > In fact, I did a little teensy bit of research.
> >
> > Create sendmail-dummy.spec holding entirely this:
> > ############# cut here ##############
> > Summary: Sendmail dummy package
> > Name: sendmail-dummy
> > Version: 1.0
> > Release: 1
> > Provides: sendmail
> > Group: Daemons
> > Copyright: GPL
> >
> > %description
> > Just a Virtual or "dummy" package to provide sendmail when it's not really
> > there.
> >
> > %files
> > ############# cut here ##############
> >
> > Then "rpm -ba sendmail-dummy.spec"
> >
> > Done.
> >
> > You might try changing "Provides:" to "Provides: sendmail
> > /usr/sbin/sendmail" if that doesn't work.
> > --
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