Package updater wants to update uw-imap, which isn't installed

[John Thompson]

On 2008-05-19, David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:

> I'm running dovecot, not uw-imap, but the package updater (the little 
> brown box icon on the task bar) keeps offering to update uw-imap, which 
> isn't even installed.
>
> 1) Why would it do that?

Do you perhaps have the "pine" mail client installed? If so, pine uses 
the libc-client package, which comes with uw-imap. When you build 
uw-imap from the source rpm, it creates a separate rpm for libc-client, 
so I'm not sure why pup thinks uw-imap needs to be updated instead of 
libc-client.

> 2) How can I tell it I don't want it, so it doesn't come up again?

Maybe put uw-imap in the exclusions list in yum.conf? Or build the new 
uw-imap from the source rpm and just install the libc-client package.

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John (john at os2.dhs.org)