Re: ignoring one broken dependency

[Matthew Gregan <kinetik@orcon.net.nz>]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:56:05AM -0400, Billy Nadeau wrote:

Billy,

> I've just compiled and installed the exim MTA version 4.10, which
> isn't yet available as a debian package.

> Now, I don't have any debian package that provides
> "mail-transport-agent", and apt-get won't install anything anymore :(

> Is there a way to skip one dependency while still using the packaging
> system?

Take a look at the ``equivs'' package. You can use this to build a fake
package that provides mail-transport-agent.

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