emerge sendmail or postfix block

jlmiller · n00b Joined: 23 Sep 2002 Posts: 20

I seem to be unable to emerge sendmail or postfix and as I'm still kind of new to the whole portage system I'd appreciate any help. I understand that it's blocking it due to a conflict, but how do I work around that? Here's the command and output.

# emerge --pretend sendmail

These are the packages that I would merge, in order.

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N ] net-dns/hesiod-3.0.2 to /
[blocks B ] net-mail/ssmtp ("virtual/mta" from pkg net-mail/sendmail-8.12.6)
[ebuild N ] net-mail/sendmail-8.12.6 to /

Same error for postfix, just substitue appropriate names.

Thanks,
jlmiller

rac · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2002 9:11 am Post subject:

ssmtp is providing the "virtual/mta" service, which the other things you want to emerge would also like to provide, so you have to get rid of ssmtp first:

jlmiller · n00b Joined: 23 Sep 2002 Posts: 20

Do I dare to ask what ssmtp is and if I'll need it for the successful operation of postfix?

rac · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2002 6:08 pm Post subject:

jlmiller · n00b Joined: 23 Sep 2002 Posts: 20

Thanks for all your help, again.