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Re: [cobalt-users] SolarSpeed Sendmail uninstall problem.

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On Tuesday 13 May 2003 14:41, Michael Aronoff wrote:
> I was doing updates to me server today and I decided to install the
> Cobalt sendmail packages since they have released patches for both
> exploits finally.
>
> I went to uninstall the Solarspeed sendmail patch
> (RaQ4-All-Security-2.0.1-15959.pkg) and got the following:
>
> [root uninstallers]# ./RaQ4-Solarspeed.net-Sendmail-8.10.2-C1sol2.uninst
> Reinstalling the original Sendmail RPM from the Sun Cobalt FTP server:
> Retrieving
> ftp://ftp.cobalt.com/pub/products/raq4/RPMS/sendmail-8.10.2-C1.i386.rpm
> package sendmail-8.10.2-C1sol2 (which is newer than sendmail-8.10.2-C1)
> is already installed
>         PLEASE NOTE: Reinstall Sun Cobalt patch 16402!
>
> Then when I go to install 16402 it errors out.  It appears that the
> original cobalt RPM will not install over the Solarspeed updated RPM.
> Michael, is there a way to fix this? Has anyone else dealt with this?

Had this same issue.  The solarspeed uninstall script tries to download the 
original sendmail rpm, but doesn't '--force' it to be installed.  I had 
emailed Michael about this, but got no response.  You can install the 
original Sun RPM by running:

rpm -Uvh --force 
ftp://ftp.cobalt.com/pub/products/raq4/RPMS/sendmail-8.10.2-C1.i386.rpm

After doing this, the 16402 and 16429 patches went smoothly for me.

> I appreciate Michael's great packages and I guess I could just stick
> with it but I figured it was safer to go back to Cobalt's once they
> released their patch.

Unfortunately, future cobalt updates will require these sendmail patches, so 
IMO it's better to do it now and resolve issues, than trying to install many 
packages each with their own way of breaking things.

Kevin Bonner
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