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On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:39:31AM +0100, Per Wigren wrote: |
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> Yesterday, for about 30 hours all my newly recieved mail went to /dev/null |
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> because of a portage limitation... |
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> I have an old computes which acts as a firewall/router, ftpserver webserver |
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> and mailserver with IMAP and spamassassin... I have "mysql" in my USE-flags |
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> on said server.. Yesterday portage upgraded MySQL from 3.23.56 to 4.0.12.. |
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> postfix and maildrop both linked to /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.10 which went |
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> away when MySQL was upgraded.. When the still running postfix delivered the |
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> mail using dropmail, dropmail just died with "error while loading shared |
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> libraries: no such file or directory" and for some reason (I'd call it a bug |
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> in postfix) it didn't defer them, they just went to /dev/null... |
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> Anyway, I won't whine about it.. Instead I'm looking into finding a solution |
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> for the REAL problem... |
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The problem is that portage doesn't do reverse dependancy checking. It needs |
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to check that a package doesn't break another package that depends on it |
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before doing an upgrade... and if it does break something, propose upgrading |
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those packages as well. |
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Alain |
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