My apologies in advance if this already made it to the listserv. I have reason to believe that it did not make it though since we are using an old version of GroupWise (v5.5) running on evan an older version of Novell (V4.11), and the action status of 'pending' does little for my confidence. Hence my sudden and extreme interest in Postfix as a replacement MTA. Here is what I tried to send to the existing thread: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Choice 2 below sounds good. Unfortunately, I do not know where the %post and %preun scripts are. Nor can I seem to get the find command to zero in on them. Can I assume that they can be edited with vi?
Additinally, my standard way to uninstall a package is to do so from within the package tree in Webmin. However, the 'alternatives' package is not contained within that list! The man pages do not indicate such, but I suspect that there is an unistall parameter like RPM --uninstall <package name> available? Thank you so much for your time. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/13/03 17:07 PM >>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:58:06PM -0500, Kenneth Illingsworth wrote: > The last package that I needed to install Postfix onto a RH v7.2 i > virtual s390 machine was something called 'alternatives'. I was unable > to find anything on my favorite MCS mirror, and likewise was unable to > find any s390 RPMs. I did managed to find a src.rpm for 'alternatives', > and performed an RPM --Rebuild on it without any apparent incident > after which it appeared to install nicely. However, when I tried to > install Postfix once again, it failed because it still needed > /usr/sbin/alternatives. > > I did notice that the rebuild of 'alternatives' produced a noarch.rpm > file rather than the expected s390.rpm file. The rebuild on the db4 > src.rpm file produced a corresponding s390.rpm file which installed > very nicely and paved the way for an equally successful rebuild of > the Postfix src.rpm file. So, I suspect that I have an issue with the > 'alternatives' src.rpm file. And this is where I bacame stuck. I > cannot seem to locate any other 'alternatives' src.rpm file. The way I see it you have two options: 1. drag the alternatives package in. Hope that it doesn't depend on two much. IIRC Mandrake (at least in earlir versions) had the alternatives as part of the package rpm (yuck!). 2. You probably don't need such alternatives for your specific site, so: remove any trace to alternatives from the package. Maybe you simply need to add a number of symlinks to the %install scripts and slash some lines from the %post and %preun scripts.
