Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present
On 07 Jan 1999 21:33:48 +1300, you wrote:
>Marc.Haber-lists@gmx.de (Marc Haber) writes:
>> Sounds like a bad brute-force approach. Can't dpkg do the remove and
>> the install of the equivs package in a single operation?
>
>Yes, AFAIK. "dpkg --auto-deconfigure --install new-mta.deb"
|=>ROOT<=@torres:/usr/src # dpkg --auto-deconfigure --install equivs_1.0.5-3_all.deb
|dpkg: regarding equivs_1.0.5-3_all.deb containing equivs:
| smail conflicts with mail-transport-agent
| equivs provides mail-transport-agent and is to be installed
|dpkg: error processing equivs_1.0.5-3_all.deb (--install):
| conflicting packages - not installing equivs
|Errors were encountered while processing:
| equivs_1.0.5-3_all.deb
|=>ROOT<=@torres:/usr/src #
Greetings
Marc
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