[gentoo-catalyst] Build stage4 ssmtp conflicts with postfix.

[gentoo-catalyst] Build stage4 ssmtp conflicts with postfix.

[Oliveiros Peixoto]

Hi.

I am building stage4, but he return error where ssmtp conflicts with
postfix. I trying configure virtuals in my profile to set postfix
virtual mta, but not work. Somebody can help me?
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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Build stage4 ssmtp conflicts with postfix.

[Andrew Gaffney]

Oliveiros Peixoto wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I am building stage4, but he return error where ssmtp conflicts with
> postfix. I trying configure virtuals in my profile to set postfix
> virtual mta, but not work. Somebody can help me?

This is a portage bug and has nothing to do with catalyst. You'd encounter this 
same problem when emerging the same packages in a stage3 chroot.

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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Build stage4 ssmtp conflicts with postfix.

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 11:34 -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> > I am building stage4, but he return error where ssmtp conflicts with
> > postfix. I trying configure virtuals in my profile to set postfix
> > virtual mta, but not work. Somebody can help me?
> 
> This is a portage bug and has nothing to do with catalyst. You'd encounter this 
> same problem when emerging the same packages in a stage3 chroot.

No, it is a portage feature.  You cannot install two packages which
block each other.  If you want postfix in your stage4, build a set of
lower stages (you should *always* do this, anyway) with your
customizations (like virtual/mta being postfix) and then rebuild your
stage4.

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Release Engineering Strategic Lead
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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Build stage4 ssmtp conflicts with postfix.

[Andrew Gaffney]

Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 11:34 -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
>>> I am building stage4, but he return error where ssmtp conflicts with
>>> postfix. I trying configure virtuals in my profile to set postfix
>>> virtual mta, but not work. Somebody can help me?
>> This is a portage bug and has nothing to do with catalyst. You'd encounter this 
>> same problem when emerging the same packages in a stage3 chroot.
> 
> No, it is a portage feature.  You cannot install two packages which
> block each other.  If you want postfix in your stage4, build a set of
> lower stages (you should *always* do this, anyway) with your
> customizations (like virtual/mta being postfix) and then rebuild your
> stage4.

The "bug" I was referring to was that portage will show a blocker when you do 
something like 'emerge vixie-cron postfix', even though postfix satisfies the 
virtual/mta that vixie-cron RDEPENDs on.

Like Chris said, the only way around this is to change the default provider for 
virtual/mta in the profile you're using in your snapshot.

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