emerge Qmail Broken

cookie · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 11:56 am Post subject: emerge Qmail Broken

I wanted to install qmail in my ultra sparc 5 using the stable tree but I get eh following error

skunkworx · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 3:36 pm Post subject:

A classic case of a package being unmasked and marked "stable" while one of its dependencies is still masked. The same thing was happening on PPC Gentoo, with queue-fix being masked, but after the latest sync I see they finally got queue-fix 1.4-r2 unmasked.

The solution is to either use an earlier version of the qmail ebuild, such as 1.03-r10, until they get the dependency masking straightened out; or, if you're feeling brave, use the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~sparc" trick to unmask cmd5checkpw.

cmd5checkpw is used to provide authenticated SMTP, that is, the ability to require a password before users can send email through your server. It has been around for quite a while, so there is probably no harm in unmasking it.

If you want to be resourceful, you can also check Bugzilla and file a bug on this if there isn't one already.

cookie · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 3:56 pm Post subject: Bug Submitted

I dont really want to use the unstable tree in case of futher brackage, so Ive submitted a bug report No 34978

ciaranm · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 4:45 pm Post subject:

Bleh... Someone screwed up the keywords (/me glares at guilty party). I've fixed now, thanks for the bug.

cookie · Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 3:47 pm Post subject: Fantastic

Thanks for the timely fix!