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On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 6:57 AM Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 18:10:58 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> Apologies to the maintainers and users of nullmailer. |
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Yeah, there is nothing wrong with nullmailer. It is a minimalist MTA |
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for systems where you just want to relay mail to another host without |
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running a full MTA. |
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> > You must have installed a package that depends on virtual/mta, |
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> > presumably because it needs to send emails. |
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> The package was gnupg, which surely doesn't need to send email. |
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https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKS |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/658164 |
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(The latter ironically has yet another person not using |
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package.provided - this one should know better... Plus, you really |
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don't want to have a system without any MTA - in your case you had |
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installed one outside of portage, but if you don't have any that is |
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what nullmailer is for.) |
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> Thanks, I didn't know about package.provided. It's not quite ideal, but |
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> suffices as a workaround. What's suboptimal about it is that you can |
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> only specify particular versions of packages, not the package as such. |
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> So, if I put |
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> virtual/mta-1 |
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> into my package.provided, I'm going to suffer again in the same way when |
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> somebody releases virtual/mta-2. As a workaround, my p.p. looks like |
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> this: |
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So, two things: |
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First, it is probably better to put one of the qmail variants in your |
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package.provided and not virtual/mta-1. I believe that will actually |
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block stuff that interferes with qmail instead of merely making it |
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less likely for an MTA to be pulled in. |
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Nobody should be depending on a specific version of virtual/mta unless |
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there is something wrong with the packages in the previous versions. |
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If there is something wrong with those packages, then there is |
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probably something wrong with your configuration which you would want |
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to know. Since you've put qmail in your packages.provided you'll |
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actually get blockers instead of portage just walking over your stuff. |
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You should also be installing qmail in /usr/local so that you don't |
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have files getting overwritten by portage. You'll still have the path |
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concerns but in general you shouldn't be writing to /usr without the |
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package manager. You get to keep the pieces if it happily overwrites |
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your stuff from time to time otherwise. |
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Rich |
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