Thanks Troy - you made me start thinking out of the box... My solution was to replace the string gnome-cups-manager with XFree86-base-fonts in the rpm using a hex editor. rpm then whined about the md5 digest and the signature, but I was able to bypass those using the --nodigest --nosignature arguments. apt is happy, rpm is happy, I am happy. And yes, this was horribly ugly (which makes me happy) Troy.A Johnson wrote: > It may be easier to create a bogus > ximian cups package that provides > the missing dependency and is > otherwise empty, but that may mess > with your rpm db in ways you may > not like. *shrug* > > >>>>kent at structural-wood.com 05/04/04 11:21AM >>> > > I'm trying to install ximians openoffice rpm, and it's got a gratuitous > dependency on ximians cups package, which of course conflicts with > another > package. > > Is there any way to simply extract the spec file, take out the gratuitous > dependency, and then reinsert the spec file in the package. > > To somewhat limit alternative suggestions. > > 1) Ximians openoffice is *very* nice looking - much nicer than the stock > openoffice > > 2) I like rpm's > > 3) I like apt > > 4) I don't use cups because I've got a huge amount of infrastructure > built around lprng > > 5) Ximians openoffice runs absolutely peachy with lprng and without cups > > 6) I can't just do a --nodeps, because that will forever after break > apt-get > > 7) Doing a rebuild off the source rpm is apparently not doable. I > estimate > that the universe reaches thermal equilibrium just about the time the > 5e12'th > error is spewed from the rebuild process. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list