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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). ===