Re: Spoofing package status.
>What I would like to do is to be able to let dselect / dpkg THINK that
>what is installed is the version that it expects, quite possibly by
>editing /var/lib/dpkg/status if necessary. This is a requirement simply
>because with a lot of stuff, dselect/dpkg _THINKS_ the installation is
>broken when in reality it is not, it just doesn't have the bits that
>dpkg/dselect thinks it should have.
This might be too simple,
but what about a dummy-package that "Provides/Replaces:
mail-transport-agent" ?
kind regards / mit freundlichen gruessen
Andreas Neukoetter
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