From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: The Postfix RPM does not provide /usr/bin/newaliases making it impossible to use with all RPMs (in this case mailman). There is a specific /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix provided in the RPM just like it is in sendmail (/usr/bin/newaliases.sendmail) but the sendmail RPM also provides /usr/bin/newaliases (although it is not present as a file in the RPM - I guess it is post-install script that is running or something). I do not wish to install both Postfix and sendmail to be able to use mailman it might cause confusion and it takes up disk space. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.rpm -Uvh mailmain-x.i386.rpm postfix-x.i386.rpm 2. 3. Actual Results: Can't install mailman because of the dependancy problem. Expected Results: That I should be able to install mailman. Additional info: Same problem exists in the Raw Hide Postfix RPM.
This is fixed in RHL 7.3 -- the alternatives magic to generate a symbolic link from /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix to /usr/bin/newaliases is now done.