Re: "--nodeps" installed package breaks apt-get & synaptic

thanks for the tip, although it isn't the connector to Exchange, it's Sun's connector to our Calendar server. :-)

/POL

Panu Matilainen wrote:

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun  Microsystems wrote:

Greetings,

I'm running FC2. I have a package (a plugin connector to Evolution) which I have had to install with --nodeps because of some slightly odd dependencies which have to be fixed by symlinking to certain libraries. It all works fine and isn't breaking anything else.

Eww. Grab a version of the connector that's been built for FC2 and stop messing around with symlinks and --nodeps, available from fedora.us for some time now: http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.stable/evolution-connector-1.4.7-0.fdr.3.2.i386.rpm

The problem is that apt-get and Synaptic both hiccup on this package and refuse to install any updates until the offending package has been removed. Is there a way to flag this package as "really OK" and have apt-get/synaptic to stop being offended by it?

In the case of the connector you could probably get away with setting RPM::Ignore:: but you really don't want to do that, the real fix is to use a version built for your system.

	- Panu -

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