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

[David Kramer]

John Thompson wrote:
> 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.

$ rpm -q pine
package pine is not installed

$ rpm -q uw-imap
package uw-imap is not installed

>> 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.

I could do that, but I kinda like knowing why my server is doing what it 
does.

In the end I'm sure I'll give up and do this, but I will do so under 
duress.  You see, I feel strongly that poor package building and bad 
repositories are large, but rarely spoken of, problems with moving Linux 
out to more newbies.  So it bothers me when I find stuff like this.