Ted Harding wrote:
On 30-Dec-09 19:11:47, MJ Ray wrote:
Ted Harding wrote: [...]
Now: Recently, on a Debian system which (from the time-stamps on the earliest user files) seems to have been Debian Etch (April 2009, though I have been following the updates), I installed the xfmail MUA which I have habitually used on a much older system. It was hnot available in the Etch repository, so I searched the web and found and used the deb package
xfmail_1.5.5-3_i386.deb 17-Jan-2006 22:35 951K
and it all seemed to go in; and also, it seems to work. So far so good. [...] In view of the above (i.e. Lenny not Etch), would you have any additional or alternative comments?
The ideal solution would still be to update the package. A second-best solution would be to rebuild the packages from etch on lenny and try to install them, which should be similar to backporting (there must be a HOWTO but I didn't find it just now - basically apt-get source --build packagename) but a little easier. I think that most of xfmail's dependencies were listed as "weak" on one of the sites I read yesterday - that may be why it works even without the apt dependencies being satisified. A poor third-best solution (if xfmail runs OK at the moment) would be to use "equivs" to Circumvent Debian package dependencies but it's been ages since I used that, so I'm not going to suggest commands which might break your system! Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster and LMS developer at | software www.software.coop http://mjr.towers.org.uk | .... co IMO only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html | .... op