Quoth Deim Agoston, > How can I tell the apt and/or dpkg that I have an MTA installed > (postfix20000531) but not from deb package (it was tar.gz). Now everytime > I install or remove something it tells me that the services which depends > on an MTA won't work. And another question. Where can I find docs about > building deb packs from tar.gz-s. (Not only from binaries but from sources > too) Use the `equivs' package from potato (or later), which makes a dummy packake to satisfy dependencies. In the /usr/share/doc/equivs/examples directory is a sample mail-transport-agent equivs conf file, which worked well for me (I use qmail). cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com | And was everyone dancing on the casket... PGP (GnuPG): A136E829 | - TBMG, "Dead"
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