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From: Michael Hampicke <mh@××××.biz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No mailer for Gentoo???
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 16:54:14
Message-Id: 522A08A5.3010405@hadt.biz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] No mailer for Gentoo??? by Jarry
1 Am 06.09.2013 18:45, schrieb Jarry:
2 > On 06-Sep-13 18:29, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
3 >> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >>> On 06-Sep-13 18:14, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
5 >>>>
6 >>>> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote:
7 >>>>>
8 >>>>> On 06-Sep-13 17:32, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
9 >>>>>>
10 >>>>>>
11 >>>>>> On 09/06/2013 11:23 AM, Jarry wrote:
12 >>>>>>>>
13 >>>>>>>>
14 >>>>>>>>
15 >>>>>>>> It wasn't part of @system before, you just removed the thing that
16 >>>>>>>> pulled
17 >>>>>>>> it in.
18 >>>>>>>
19 >>>>>>>
20 >>>>>>>
21 >>>>>>> No I did not. mail-mta/ssmtp was part of stage3. And I did not
22 >>>>>>> remove now any "thing" that pulled it in. All I did was
23 >>>>>>> "emerge --ask --update --deep --newuse world".
24 >>>>>>>
25 >>>>>>> As a result, python-exec, python-argparse and libxml2 were
26 >>>>>>> reinstalled and automake-wrapper, gtk-doc-am, eselect and
27 >>>>>>> linux-header updated. Nothing else.
28 >>>>>>>
29 >>>>>>> After that I did "emerge --depclean" and the above mentioned
30 >>>>>>> packages were suddenly removed...
31 >>>>>>>
32 >>>>>>
33 >>>>>> It could be that a package's deps were updated to no longer include
34 >>>>>> virtual/mta. But it was never part of @system, you can check for
35 >>>>>> yourself:
36 >>>>>>
37 >>>>>>
38 >>>>>>
39 >>>>>> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/packages?view=log
40 >>>>>>
41 >>>>>
42 >>>>>
43 >>>>>
44 >>>>> Then something got broken because I have packages installed
45 >>>>> that need mailer (i.e. app-admin/monit or sys-fs/mdadm are
46 >>>>> configured to send emails). And these packages do not have
47 >>>>> "mail" use-flag, because their maintainers apparently expect
48 >>>>> standard *nix mailer (/usr/bin/sendmail) exists on the system...
49 >>>>>
50 >>>>> So now I have "stable" system, updated to the latest level,
51 >>>>> where a lot of things suddenly do not work. This should *never*
52 >>>>> happen! If it was some package's dep that caused it, it's clear
53 >>>>> this change was premature...
54 >>>>
55 >>>>
56 >>>> I think is a bug in the packages. In my system the only package that
57 >>>> pulls vitual/mta (and therefore ssmtp) is vixie-cron.
58 >>>
59 >>>
60 >>> That is strange. I have sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r12 and yet
61 >>> revdep-rebuild does not want to pull virtual/mta. But It should,
62 >>> as cron can be configured to send emails too.
63 >>
64 >> Read my last mail; they changed the RDEPEND for the cron eclass.
65 >>
66 >>> As I wrote: there are *many* packages that expect standard
67 >>> *nix mailer exists! If it does not, a lot of packages must
68 >>> be fixed to include mailer as dependency.
69 >>
70 >> The devs disagree. I think I'm with them; the packages in question
71 >> actually work, it just happens that they can't send mails anymore. If
72 >> you need/want them to send mails, install an MTA.
73 >>
74 >
75 > "Just" can't send mails. So if mdadm detects failed drive in raid1
76 > and I do not get mail about it, I will discover it at least when
77 > the 2nd drive fails. That's a relief...
78 >
79 If you wan't to get mails from mdadm install an an MTA. Is that so hard
80 to understand?

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