> 
> > > > > How do apt and yum know not to overwrite
> your sendmail?
> > > > 
> > > > My package version trumps distro provided
> package.
> > > 
> > > How does that work?
> > 
> > distro sendmail 8.13.x, own modified package
> sendmail
> > make it version 8.14.x or whatever works for that
> > particular piece of software.
> 
> Hacky, and obviously it'll break when 8.14 comes
> out, but if it works for
> you and your customers ...

inhouse, inhouse. Otherwise, that mysql patch would be
out there already. Besides, if 8.14 did come out, the
distro rarely puts it in until the next release.

> 
> Is there no way to express in the mysql-sendmail
> package that that the
> sendmail package is incompatible with it?  I thought
> rpms could do that.
> SysV packages have something like that, but I don't
> think I've ever seen it
> used, and I've no idea what Solaris Upgrade would do
> with it.

I did not try sorting it out.

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