Excluding a package, or proper dependency resolution

25 May 2005

      I'm having a problem of having two conflicting packages being installed.
Both "imap" and "cyrus-imapd".

Apparently "imap" is coming from either "base" one of the "addons"
listed, and then when I manually specify cyrus-imapd as a "package" the
conflict occurs.

How can I still use my defined list of "addons", yet not have imap
installed?

Here is my config snippet:

    <software>
      <base>default</base>
      <addons config:type="list">
        <addon>Basis-Devel</addon>
        <addon>Basis-Sound</addon>
        <addon>Fonts</addon>
        <addon>Games</addon>
        <addon>Gnome</addon>
        <addon>Gnome-Devel</addon>
        <addon>Hacker</addon>
        <addon>Java</addon>
        <addon>Kde</addon>
        <addon>Kde-Desktop</addon>
        <addon>Kde-Devel</addon>
        <addon>Kernel-Devel</addon>
        <addon>LAMP2</addon>
        <addon>LDAP-Server</addon>
        <addon>Laptop</addon>
        <addon>Latex</addon>
        <addon>Min</addon>
        <addon>Mobile</addon>
        <addon>Multimedia</addon>
        <addon>Network</addon>
        <addon>Office</addon>
        <addon>SuSE-Documentation</addon>
        <addon>Tcl-Development</addon>
        <addon>Voip</addon>
        <addon>X11</addon>
        <addon>Xen</addon>
      </addons>
      <packages config:type="list">
        <package>autoyast2-utils</package>
        <package>SDL-devel</package>
        <package>finger-server</package>
        <package>mozilla-mail</package>
        <package>ncftp</package>
        <package>pdksh</package>
        <package>talk-server</package>
        <package>telnet-server</package>
        <package>postgresql-server</package>
        <package>lvm2</package>
        <package>cyrus-imapd</package>
      </packages>
    </software>

A workaround is to just "rpm -e imap" in a postinstall script, but I was
hoping for a cleaner solution.

Thanks in advance.

Dax Kelson
Guru Labs