On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 16:53 +0530, Sanjay Arora wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 14:57, Sanjay Arora wrote: > > > > 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? > > Would the --exclude option in yum make it drop sendmail as a dependency > to be installed? > No. exclude just makes yum ignore the existence of certain packages from remote. yum has no --nodeps and it has no --force option. And No it won't get one. If you're system deps are horribly hosed up then you're out of luck. I don't want to write a bunch of code that will enable people to further break their system. -sv
