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On Tuesday 29 May 2007 10:32:23 Daevid Vincent wrote: |
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> * mail-mta/exim |
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> Latest version available: 4.67 |
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> Latest version installed: 4.54 |
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> Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] |
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> Homepage: http://www.exim.org/ |
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> |
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> So I have this in my package.mask: |
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> >=mail-mta/exim-4.55 |
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[SNIP] |
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> [nomerge ] sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r10 [4.1-r9] |
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> [ebuild N ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2 USE="ipv6 ssl -mailwrapper |
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[SNIP] |
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> [blocks B ] mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) |
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> (also, I never understand the --tree option. Does this mean that |
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> "vixie-cron" is the issue, or "kdegraphics" is the issue? Being reverse |
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> order, I am guessing vixie-cron, yet it says "nomerge" so that seems |
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> like, why would it care, plus it's worked fine all these years with the |
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> exim I have installed. |
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vixie-cron has a run-time dependency on virtual/mta which can be satisfied by |
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both exim and ssmtp (and 8 other packages in the tree). ssmtp is the default |
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provider. |
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What has happened is that all versions of exim in the tree that you haven't |
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masked have been removed from the tree. I.e. there are no versions in the |
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tree below 4.55. Therefore it suggests installing the default provider of |
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virtual/mta which is blocked by the version of exim which is still installed |
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although not installable (not in the tree). It matters despite the "nomerge" |
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because it's a run-time dependency rather than build-time. |
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You have at least four options. The first option is to upgrade exim and hope |
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it'll work. I have no knowledge about exim so I cannot tell you whether it |
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will. The second is to restore the ebuild for your installed version in an |
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overlay (you can pull it from /var/db/pkg/mail-mta/exim-4.54/) thereby |
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restoring a non-masked version of exim.. The third is to add mail-mta/exim to |
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package.provided (see `man portage`). The fourth is to unmerge exim and use |
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another mta (I'm using postfix). |
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Bo Andresen |
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