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Subject: Re: here's an easy way to do postfix *outside* the rpm system
From: James Youngman (jaygnu.org)
Date: Fri May 26 2000 - 13:28:28 CDT

flapsdgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:

> But anyway, for people using an rpm-based gnu/linux distribution
> where all the MUAs require "smtpdaemon" but you want to uninstall
> the sendmail rpm and you don't want to install one of the postfix
> rpms (most likely because you're building from source for just one
> or a few machines), you might want to install this place-holder.
> This is an rpm with zero files and really not much of any content
> except that it satisfies all those MUAs' smtpdaemon rpm
> requirements; it's an rpm-database kludge, but a fairly clean one.

The other way of doing this is to edit your /etc/rpmrc:-

$ cat /etc/rpmrc
#netsharedpath: /usr/lib/texmf:/var/lib/texmf
#netsharedpath: /var/lib/texmf
provides: smtpdaemon 

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