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Subject: Re: Security problem?  cyrus imapd needs e2fsprogs-devel?
From: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 03:14:56 -0400

On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 02:57:17AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 2 root@asdf:/stuff/rh-security-6.2# rpm --rebuild
> cyrus-imapd-2.0.5-1ssl.src.rpm
> Installing cyrus-imapd-2.0.5-1ssl.src.rpm
> error: failed build dependencies:
>         cyrus-sasl   is needed by cyrus-imapd-2.0.5-1ssl
>         e2fsprogs-devel   is needed by cyrus-imapd-2.0.5-1ssl
> 
> Why on God's green earth would an IMAP server require
> e2fsprogs?  I got this from ftp.redhat.de...

The e2fsprogs-devel package contains libcom_err, which is a popular
library for integrating error-reporting strings into a package (it's
used by Kerberos, Zephyr, e2fsprogs, and just about anything ever
written at MIT, and possibly CMU as well).

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