On Thursday 17 April 2003 12:03, Ing. Wolfgang Skabrond wrote:
Sadly, removing postfix in a postinstall-script fails for the following reason - sadly :-(
When installing postfix (from the Minimal base) AND sendmail (from my package selection) in parallel, this really is an inconsistent system. Postfix contains "/usr/sbin/sendmail" as a sendmail-compatibility-program, uninstalling postfix removes /usr/sbin/sendmail, effectively breaking the sendmail-package, which also owns a /usr/sbin/sendmail - THE ORIGINAL! So doing an rpm -e postfix in the postinstall-script effectivly leaves the system without any functioning SMTP ...
Well, that makes all a bit more complicated .. but what about that idea: While autoyast is doing these post-scripts, the install-media is probably still mounted (otherwise copy rpm paket via pre-script to local disk). It should be possible to deinstall postfix and *then* install sendmail.rpm ... you just have to find out where the rpm location is at installation time..
Or you might think about doing it via NFS or other supported network protocoll, since that works very nice and you can make your own base-package descriptions. (If you have somewhere a network and enough discspace - why not?)
Well, NFS is OK, when i'm installing here, but - no way out in the field ...
If you are out in the field with the installation, you probably have a laptop with you? You can do NFS, if you have a linux laptop (or a temporary linux laptop ... knoppix cd - IIRC one can download suse trial out cds ... whatever, there a lot of possibilities ) IIRC you can also use windows shares for installation. You only need a laptop whith enough disc space. Won't work, if the installation media should go out to fieldwork without you .. in that case I'd recommend customized install cds
Just my two pfennige^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h groschen^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h cents ..
Anyway - thanks for your 2 pfennings ... groschen ... cents ... well, lets talk in Bytes - there's no conversion *grin* 1Dbeit = 7Abeit ;-)
Happy Easter to all!
Wolfgang, who's going in circles ...
Hella, who recommends to go for a walk instead (such nice weather outside)