Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:05:08 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Elton <bungle@xxxxxxxx> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [cobalt-users] Sendmail Security Update 2.0.1 Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Has anyone else had difficulties installing this ? RaQ4-All-Security-2.0.1-16402.pkg I've had a few boxes now give : Problem installing package component: sendmail-conf-8.10.2-C3.i386.rpm -- Paul Elton
Paul,I had the same problem! I had installed the RaQ4-Sendmail-8.10.2-PM1.pkg from Pkgmaster. I uninstalled this package before I installed RaQ4-All-Security-2.0.1-16402.pkg. But it seems that the pkgmaster package does not uninstall completely. Obviously, there is a conflict for the sendmail.cf. After the (incomplete) installation of the patch, rpm shows the following results:
[root RPMS]# rpm -qf /etc/mail/sendmail.cf sendmail-conf-8.10.2-C1 sendmail-conf-8.10.2-C3 sendmail-conf-8.10.2-C3 I saved the /etc/mail directory and uninstalled the two packages: [root RPMS]# rpm -e sendmail-conf-8.10.2-C1 [root RPMS]# rpm -e --allmatches sendmail-conf-8.10.2-C3(The second uninstall was necessary at least for my system because I had two instances of C3 due to a second try to install the patch! :-))
This removed some files from /etc/mail which I restored from the copied directory. Afterwards I could install successfully the new patch!
Hope that helps! Uwe