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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-31 i686) Description of problem: upgrading to fetchmail via up2date forced me to install sendmail, which broke email on my system until I reverted it and reinstalled the pertinent portions of qmail. As far as I know, fetchmail does not depend on sendmail. It depends on having a working SMTP daemon, but that is all. Also, it would be nice if up2date would allow me to reject supposedly "required" packages and yet continue with upgrading the ones I care about, for cases like this when dependencies are incorrect. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgrade to latest fetchmail via up2date. 2. 3. Actual Results: up2date claimed it had to also upgrade to latest sendmail. Expected Results: up2date should have upgraded only fetchmail, or at least provided me an option to cancel just the sendmail upgrade while proceeding with the rest. Additional info:
I'm sorry about the late response. fetchmail actually requires "smtpdaemon"; if you are using qmail, you should have it packaged in a rpm package that provides "smtpdaemon". up2date can't know whether the required package has a working replacement on your system or not; ignoring (or just allowing the user to ignore) dependencies could easily lead to partially installed systems with non-working software.