Hi folks, This is something that's bugged me for a while and I'm sure there must be a way to do it... Basically, there are lots of cases where I remove packages that other packages depend on when I replace them with an alternative I have compiled myself.
One example of this is qmail. I removed exim on Debian 2.2 and replaced it with qmail which I compiled myself from sources. Lots of stuff depends on mail-transport-agent and I can't use dselect to get other packages or do updates once this is broken since when I tell it to do the install it checks the dependencies and removes all the software that depends on the mail-transport-agent (bad). Does anyone have any simple instructions or suggestions on how to create a fake debian package that claims it provides mail-transport-agent? Or another easy solution? Some way to tell it that it doesn't need mail-transport-agent? Thanks for the help, Peter McLachlan ************************************************************************** This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living, and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. -- Alfred Bester, "The Stars My Destination" **************************************************************************