On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 08:16 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 02:01:25PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 01:59:46PM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > > I need to install tripwire on a server that doesn't need a pre-packaged > > > MTA (there is a custom compiled MTA on that host). "apt-get install > > > tripwire" wants to install all sorts of stuff, how do I inform apt that > > > there is already an MTA installed? > > > > Check out the equivs package. > > alternatively, if the "custom compiled MTA" is one of the MTAs packaged > for debian, then download the debianised sources, patch & configure it > as you need, and then build a custom package. > > that is *ALWAYS* a better thing to do on a debian system than to compile > something and just run "make install". Actually, at least for me, "make install" (if you know what you are doing) is better, at least for what I am doing (high-volume, high-performance Sendmail system, w/ libmilter for dk-filter, tons of queues, different queue types, etc.). Debian's Sendmail packages have too many scripts that do too many strange things, and assume the usage is very "generic". One of the strange things those scripts do is is rebuilding sendmail.cf at startup, IIRC. I worked around this situation by modifying "sendmail" in /var/lib/dpkg/status: Package: sendmail Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: mail Installed-Size: 136 Maintainer: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com> Architecture: i386 Source: jimpop Version: 8.14.0 Provides: mail-transport-agent Depends: netbase, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.4.1-3) Description: Custom Sendmail Used for email I also had to touch /var/lib/dpkg/info/sendmail.list (to reduce dselect/apt-update errors about missing package files list). Once I did that, dpkg was fooled into thinking mail-transport-agent was installed and allowed other pkgs (i.e. tripwire) that depend on mail-transport-agent to be installed. -Jim P.
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