On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:50:10PM -0500, George Walsh wrote:
Would like to use Sendmail 8.12.2 and Apache/mod_ssl 1.3.24/2.8.8 but there are so many tie-ins via rpm with Gnome and KDE and whatever that I was wondering if it is possible to cleanly remove the SuSE distributions and replace them with compiles from the source organizations? I gather I'd lose some functionality. Has anyone done this in the past? I even thought of using the rpm -U to update instead of recompiling, but SuSE rpms are not found where others commonly are - if they are available at all.
George, You can remove sendmail with rpm or YaST, but both will complain about dependencies. In both cases, you can force it. I always remove sendmail on a new SuSE install, but then I replace it with the postfix rpm which satisfies the rpm dependencies again (it provides an smtp_daemon that other packages require). I've never wanted to remove apache, but I know rpm will complain again. You could then install from source, but the RPM database would not know about it. There was a program called checkinstall mentioned on the list a short time ago that is supposed to take source, install it and then update the RPM database, but I've never used it so I don't know the details. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MSCE, N+ you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one Got spam? Get SPASTIC http://spastic.sourceforge.net