For completeness, apt was not happy. Any time I queried the rpm db I got a complaint about an invalid signature. I did a rpm --rebuilddb, and rpm dumped the record for ximians openoffice. The rpm is still installed, it's just not being tracked by rpm. I guess the next step is to bdiff the original rpm with my hacked rpm and hex edit the signature. This is really dumb - there should be an easy way to edit the dependency info of an rpm. Entertainingly enough, the documents for rpmlib are out of sync with the actual library, and the sole rpmlib example doesn't compile because the API has changed radically. Kent Schumacher wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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