[rhelv6-list] Removing sendmail - how to satisfy MTA requirement?

[emmanuel segura]

ugly and fast way rpm -e --nodeps sendmail


2013/11/26 Paul Reilly <pareilly at tcd.ie>

> Hello,
>
> The version of postfix which comes with RHEL 6 is very old, postfix
> version 2.6, and does not contain the features I want. So I have installed
> postfix 2.10  from source code.  Next, I would like to remove sendmail from
> this server, and use the source compiled postfix as our MTA.  However if I
> try to remove sendmail, yum tries to remove lot's of other critical
> packages like crontabs and redhat-lsb-core.  How do I remove sendmail and
> let the package manager know that I have an MTA installed, so it doesn't
> try and remove these packages?
>
>
> # yum erase sendmail
> ...
> Dependencies Resolved
>
>
> ==================================================================================================================================================================
>  Package                           Arch
> Version
> Repository                                                             Size
>
> ==================================================================================================================================================================
> Removing:
>  sendmail                          x86_64
> 8.14.4-8.el6
> @rhel-6-server-rpms                                                   1.5 M
> *Removing for dependencies:*
>  cronie                            x86_64
> 1.4.4-12.el6
> @rhel-6-server-rpms                                                   174 k
>  cronie-anacron                    x86_64
> 1.4.4-12.el6
> @rhel-6-server-rpms                                                    43 k
>  crontabs                          noarch
> 1.10-33.el6
> @anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201111171049.x86_64/6.2               2.4 k
>  libcgroup                         x86_64
> 0.40.rc1-5.el6
> @rhel-6-server-rpms                                                   321 k
>  redhat-lsb-core                   x86_64
> 4.0-7.el6
> @rhel-x86_64-server-6                                                  22 k
>  redhat-lsb-graphics               x86_64
> 4.0-7.el6
> @rhel-x86_64-server-6                                                 0.0
>  sysstat                           x86_64
> 9.0.4-22.el6
> @rhel-6-server-rpms                                                   824 k
>
> Transaction Summary
>
> ==================================================================================================================================================================
> Remove        8 Package(s)
>
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul
>
>
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