On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 14:15, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > Well your rpm database is likely to be inconsistent - we really should > rename the --nodeps switch to be > --nodeps-and-i-really-do-realise-this-will-fuck-my-system-and-i-will-take-the-consequences since it might just stop people using --nodeps all the time. > I am coming to realize that. Always updated manually. Yum is good but needs workarounds when you have some packages compiled from source. And I have qmail on all three of my systems...will face the same problem on all of them....Well...the school of hard knocks works! > You may be able to install sendmail and configure it off plus replace > the /usr/sbin/sendmail symlink to point at qmail (so the 2 don't > interfere with one another) - you should look at alternatives (the > package) to see how to set the links to your MTA). > Thats seems to be the only thing left. Does yum provide a way to update without applying a particular dependency rpm, if specially asked somewhere on command line or conf file? Looked for such a thing in vain. Anybody know anything? Does Apt package provide such a feature? > You could also see if you could find out what it is that has the > sendmail deps - try > rpm -q --whatrequires smtpdaemon > Yeah!! Worked...fetchmail & mutt...but am using fetchmail ;-) No wonder they call it dependency hell!! Thanks Nigel. Any other workaround...other than what Nigel suggested? Anybody? Sanjay.
