John Thompson wrote:
On 2008-05-19, David Kramer <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm running dovecot, not uw-imap, but the package updater (the little
brown box icon on the task bar) keeps offering to update uw-imap, which
isn't even installed.
1) Why would it do that?
Do you perhaps have the "pine" mail client installed? If so, pine uses
the libc-client package, which comes with uw-imap. When you build
uw-imap from the source rpm, it creates a separate rpm for libc-client,
so I'm not sure why pup thinks uw-imap needs to be updated instead of
libc-client.
$ rpm -q pine
package pine is not installed
$ rpm -q uw-imap
package uw-imap is not installed
2) How can I tell it I don't want it, so it doesn't come up again?
Maybe put uw-imap in the exclusions list in yum.conf? Or build the new
uw-imap from the source rpm and just install the libc-client package.
I could do that, but I kinda like knowing why my server is doing what it
does.
In the end I'm sure I'll give up and do this, but I will do so under
duress. You see, I feel strongly that poor package building and bad
repositories are large, but rarely spoken of, problems with moving Linux
out to more newbies. So it bothers me when I find stuff like this.
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