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Hello, can someone tell me how depscan decides which init script to use |
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if more than one provides the same virtual dependency? Is there a way to |
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force depscan to select a particular script over another to use? |
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This is relevant to bug #36060 for MailScanner. MailScanner needs to sit |
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itself between multiple instances of an mta in order to scan mail, and |
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so needs to provide the mta dependency to ensure that sendmail or |
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whatever is started up correctly. I realise that it could overide |
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/etc/init.d/sendmail and /etc/conf.d/sendmail but then both sendmail and |
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mailscanner would be fighting over the init script every time one was |
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upgraded. |
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Ideally the MailScanner ebuild would be able to install a mailscanner |
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init script that would override the sendmail/postfix/etc. init script. |
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I have seen that the ~ ebuilds for sendmail/postrix/etc. now use |
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mailwrapper to allow multiple mtas to be installed, but having installed |
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two of them I see it runs into exactly the same problem, leaving me with |
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an /etc/init.d/sendmail and an /etc/init.d/postfix providing mta. |
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Would a solution be as simple as altering mailwrapper to provice an mta |
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initscript that would then call the initscript of the same mta as is |
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currently providing the sendmail binaries? |
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Richard Brown |
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http://www.lawson-his.co.uk |
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0870 99 070 52 |
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