Installation experiences on SuSE 7.3 - sendmail-tls

[Dale Lovelace]

-----Original Message-----
>2. Second error message said "MailScanner needs sendmail". This was
>obviously due to the fact, that I have sendmail-tls installed. Maybe
you
>can add sendmail-tls to the dependencies in future, to prevent this
>error message

>I don't know how you specify "requires a or b" in the RPM spec file :-(

  Are you running a RPM version of sendmail-tls? If so it should have
"Provides: sendmail" in the RPM. If you're not running a RPM version of
sendmail-tls, asaik nothing Julian does in the RPM will prevent this
dependency problem...

  You do know that the current sendmail provides direct support for the
STARTTLS command now so that sendmail-tls is unnecessary right?

  BTW Julian, you can't "Requires:" "A" or "B" in a RPM, but both "A"
and "B" should "Provides:" something, then you "Requires:" that
"Provides:" instead of the actual package... For example both php-mysql
and php-pgsql have "Provides: php_database" in the RPM, so if you had a
php program that needed either database you would have "Requires:
php_database" in your RPM.

  Oh, and on Red Hat different MTA's "Provides: smtp_daemon", so if you
have a RPM that works with post sendmail and postfix you might require
that instead of sendmail. Not sure about that on SuSE...

  Dale