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Re: how do i "outsmart" apt-get regarding package dependencies?



On Wednesday 07 May 2003 3:01 pm, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
> Good Morning,
> 	We have a new Debian mail server running woody.  I have a question
> about this server and apt-get.  There are a number of packages on this
> server that we have built from source (apache, sendmail, cyrus) due to
> some complex things we include in our builds.
> 	However, there are a number of programs that I need to install
> (logrotate, mailx, etc.) that need an MTA.  apt-get doesn't know or think
> that we have one installed since sendmail was compiled from source.
> Therefore, it demands to download exim, or another mta of our choice:

you can use the equivs package and build dummys for things you have installed 
from source.

Tom

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