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I have qmail-1.03-r16 installed on my mail server. Portage is saying it wants to install: |
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[ebuild N ] virtual/qmail-1.03 |
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I've read a bit about virtual packages and understand that it's a way of configuring which |
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package to use for a given purpose when there are multiple packages that would suffice. |
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However, I'm not clear on why Portage wants to reinstall qmail or why it's considering it |
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a new install. |
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Well in searching through /usr/portage for "virtual/qmail" I find lots of changelog |
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entries saying "changed to virtual/qmail". So, I assume that all the packages depending on |
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qmail have switched to depending on virtual/qmail, right? |
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And I need to reinstall qmail so that it's installed as "virtual/qmail-1.03"? However, why |
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does it say it's a new package? And does that mean that I'll have to unmerge my existing |
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qmail manually? Also, why is is 1.03 instead of 1.03-r16? |
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Thanks, |
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