Re: MTA installed from tarball

[Wayne Topa <wtopa@ix.netcom.com>]

	Subject: MTA installed from tarball
	Date: Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 06:32:34PM +0400

In reply to:Alex toropov

Quoting Alex toropov(alex@ct.spb.ru):
> Hi,
> 
> I've installed qmail package using source tar.gz.
> 
> Everything concerning mail works fine, but when I try to add/remove, etc.
> using dselect (or dpkg) it claims about dependcy problems.
> (some pakages needs mail-transfer-agent)
> 
> So is there any way to tell dselect/dpkg system, that I already have MTA
> installed on my system?
> 
> Thanks, Alex

There is a package called 'equivs' that is supposed to do that for
you, but I couldn't get it to work when I installed qmail.  So I took
the easy(hard?) way out.  I installed sendmail with dpkg, found all
the references to it and removed them (except I put links from the
sendmail bin and lib calls to the qmail bin).  That way dpkg thinks it
has sendmail installed and doesn't bug you anymore.

BTW there is a qmai.deb package but, as you probably know, it is an
older version.

HTH

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