Topic: e-smith RPMs

[Robert]

I'm thinking of installing the e-smith RPMs on top of a basic RedHat installation on an alpha-processor system.  Has anyone else tried to install e-smith on top of an existing linux installation, on any architecture? I'd love to hear what your experiences have been. Any problems with dependencies?  From what rpm tells me the only packages that e-smith is dependent on are bash and mod_auth_external (which in turn needs apache of course). But shouldn't e-smith-email require qmail for instance? Does anyone know where the unusual RPMs autopassword, checkpassword, and sshell fit into e-smith's overall design? Do I need them for e-smith to work?

[Charlie Brady]

Robert wrote:

> I'm thinking of installing the e-smith RPMs on top of a basic
> RedHat installation on an alpha-processor system.  Has anyone
> else tried to install e-smith on top of an existing linux
> installation, on any architecture?

Not that I'm aware of.

> I'd love to hear what your
> experiences have been. Any problems with dependencies?

The  only architecture dependencies that I know of are on RedHat kickstart and LILO, for the automated installation. These shouldn't be problems if you were hand-building another architecture.

> what rpm tells me the only packages that e-smith is dependent
> on are bash and mod_auth_external (which in turn needs apache
> of course). But shouldn't e-smith-email require qmail for
> instance?

Yes.

> Does anyone know where the unusual RPMs autopassword,
> checkpassword, and sshell fit into e-smith's overall design? Do
> I need them for e-smith to work?

Yes (but it's only documented in the source code). And Yes.

Charlie