Hello,

please can anybody help me in solving a rpm dependency problem in SuSE 8.1?

I don't know why yast2 installs the package sendmail? In my selection list (need1.sel) which I attached to this mail, sendmail is not included. But any rpm in need1.sel requires sendmail. And I will be happy if I know the name of this rpm.

I don't know the mechanism how yast2/rpm resolves the dependencies. Perhaps anybody can give me a good startpoint where I can read how I can check the dependencies with shell commands.

Try this: rpm -q --provides sendmail: sendcf smailcfg smtp_daemon And: rpm -q --whatrequires smtp_daemon: cron-3.0.1-631 (done on a system running SuSE 8.1)

What I have done so far is: get all tags for every rpm in the suse tree... $ RPMTAG_LIST=`rpm --querytags | sort` $ pkg=... $ for tag in $RPMTAG_LIST $ do echo "Flag $tag:" rpm -qp --queryformat "'%{$tag}'" $pkg done and search after sendmail and/or REQUIRE.

Ciao, Marcel

Regards CS -- Christian Stoltze Computer Science, University of Constance (Lake Constance/SW-Germany) Email: Christian.Stoltze@uni-konstanz.de Voice: +49 (0)7531 88-4448 Fax: +49 (0)7531 88-3577

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