Re: [gentoo-user] 2 MTA at the same host

[Neil Bothwick]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 15:40:45 +0500, Azamat Hackimov wrote:

Please don't top-post.

> You know, this is very unusual configuration. I don't even can imagine
> why you need both of them.
> In order to resolve mutual block, you need to remove "!mail-mta/postfix"
> and "!mail-mta/exim" strings from RDEPEND in both packages. Don't
> forget to place modified ebuilds to local overlay.

That's not enough. Both ebuilds install sendmail, so you'll also have to
deal with file collisions, or modify one of the ebuild to not install
sendmail. The latter is probably the better option.

Another approach would be to run one of these MTAs in a container, which
would avoid all these shenanigans.
>
> 2016-08-08 15:29 GMT+05:00 Konstantin <myownletters@×××××.com>:
>
> > Hello Guys
> >
> > I need to install postfix and exim at the same Gentoo server.
> > I know it is unusual configuration ).
> > I have both MTA running at CentOS and trying to migrate to Gentoo.
> >
> > Current error message for "emerge -pv exim" is:
> > [blocks B      ] mail-mta/exim ("mail-mta/exim" is blocking
> > mail-mta/postfix-3.1.0-r1)
> >
> > Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 1,763 KiB
> > Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)
> >
> >  * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
> >  * installed at the same time on the same system.
> >
> >   (mail-mta/postfix-3.1.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
> >     mail-mta/postfix required by @selected
> >
> >   (mail-mta/exim-4.87:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled
> > in by
> >     exim
> >
> > What i need to change in ebuild files of these packages in order to
> > install both of them ?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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