Overriding SuSe Defaults.

[Matthew Carpenter]

This is a nice entry in /server.log


On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:29:42 -0700
"Kevin O'Gorman" <kevin at kosmanor.com> wrote:

> If you don't mind a horrible hack, there's a fairly easy way to do this.
> Just go ahead and let Yast install whatever it wants.  Then use rpm
> to find all the files it installed (rpm -ql whatever), and delete all
> those files.  Do the deletion manually; do not do it through Yast or
> rpm. It's probably easiest to build a script from the output of 'rpm
> -ql'. Now install your tarball.  Yast thinks it has the stuff it wants,
> because it believes its database rather than checking reality,
> and the reality is the way you want it.
> 
> Just be mindful that the database and the reality no longer coincide.
> Forever.  Being a hack, this approach can bite you later if you forget
> about it.
> 
> ++ kevin
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 08:17:10AM -0500, Ben Duncan wrote:
> > Is there anyway to override the Yast2 defaults on software
> > dependencies?
> > 
> > I have installed LPRng from pristine source and removed the standard
> > RPM of LPR that Suse 8.0 ships. I did this because of some specific
> > settings I need vs the way SuSe wants to control the printer. However,
> > evertime I add/remove a package from the CD's, Yast wants to complain
> > and install IT's PRINTING solutions (choice of install cups/lprng). IF
> > you are not careful and go back un "unmark" it's selection it winds up
> > putting it's version of lpr back out there.
> > 
> > I need this PITA to go away and the SuSe 8.0 log (whatever/wherever)
> > that may be, to think LPR has been installed.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks ...
> > 
> > -- 
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