"--nodeps" installed package breaks apt-get & synaptic

[Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun Microsystems]

thanks for the tip, although it isn't the connector to Exchange, it's 
Sun's connector to our Calendar server.  :-)

/POL

Panu Matilainen wrote:

>On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun  Microsystems wrote:
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>>Greetings,
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>>I'm running FC2. I have a package (a plugin connector to Evolution) 
>>which I have had to install with --nodeps because of some slightly odd 
>>dependencies which have to be fixed by symlinking to certain libraries. 
>>It all works fine and isn't breaking anything else.
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>Eww. Grab a version of the connector that's been built for FC2 and stop 
>messing around with symlinks and --nodeps, available from fedora.us for 
>some time now: 
>http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.stable/evolution-connector-1.4.7-0.fdr.3.2.i386.rpm
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>>The problem is that apt-get and Synaptic both hiccup on this package and 
>>refuse to install any updates until the offending package has been 
>>removed. Is there a way to flag this package as "really OK" and have 
>>apt-get/synaptic to stop being offended by it?
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>In the case of the connector you could probably get away with setting 
>RPM::Ignore:: but you really don't want to do that, the real fix is to use 
>a version built for your system.
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>	- Panu -
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