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TobiWan
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 Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 7:59 pm Post subject: problems emerging postfix because of "virtual/mta" |
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Hi there,
I am having trouble installing postfix using "emerge". I synched the portage tree and the system is a fresh stage1 install with kde and OO.
Here it is:
| Code: | emerge --pretend postfix
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[blocks B ] net-mail/ssmtp ("virtual/mta" from pkg net-mail/postfix-2.0.11)
[ebuild N ] net-mail/postfix-2.0.11 |
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| Code: | emerge postfix
Calculating dependencies ...done!
!!! Error: the virtual/mta package conflicts with this package and both can't be installed on the same system together. |
Is this a package that is already installed? How do I get rid of it? What's it name?
Because I can't unemerge it:
| Code: | emerge unmerge =net-mail/postfix
emerge unmerge =net-mail/postfix-2.0.11
emerge unmerge =virtual/mta
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This doesn't work.
I am new to Gentoo but have understood the principles of using emerge and portage but I can't verify what packages are actually on the system and how to remove them.
Any help appreciated.
Tobias |
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rwallace
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Joined: 22 May 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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Merging postfix is blocking because there is already an smtp package installed. That is ssmtp. The virtual/mta is a virtual package that makes sure people don't try and install multiple things trying to do the same thing, which could result in undefined behaviour.
To fix this and get postfix to emerge do
| Code: | emerge -C ssmtp
emerge postfix |
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TobiWan
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 8:52 pm Post subject: many thanks |
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Many many thanks  Why isn't that in the portage guide?  |
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jcosters
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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BTW - After doing all this, I tried doing an | Code: | | emerge -upv --deep world |
, and the darn ssmtp package keeps on popping up to be installed, even with postfix installed!
I had to manually remove ssmtp from the | Code: | | virtual/mta net-mail/ssmtp net-mail/postfix |
line in | Code: | | /var/cache/edb/virtuals |
to solve it.
Is this a bug or isn't portage supposed to keep track of such things? |
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Genone
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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| It's a portage bug that the virtual isn't remove on unmerge that was fixed and came back several times (bug 1891). |
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jcosters
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| Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:27 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for pointing that out Genone
However, removing net-mail/ssmtp from the virtuals file (see previous post) only did the trick partially: ssmtp does not pop up when updating, but when I , portage tells me I need an MTA which supports sendmail?? I just installed postfix which I thought includes the sendmail command, but upon inspection I did not find any sendmail binary or symlink.
| Code: | emerge mod_php
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-php/mod_php-4.3.2-r4 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) php-4.3.2.tar.bz2
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) php-4.3.2-fopen-url-secure.patch
>>> Unpacking source...
* This is a security upgrade for PHP!
* However it is not critical for your machine
* Due to some previous bloopers with PHP and slotting, you may have
* multiple copies of mod_php installed. Please look at the autoclean
* output at the end of the emerge and unmerge all but relevant
* copies.
* Apache2 only detected
>>> Unpacking php-4.3.2.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/mod_php-4.3.2-r4/work
>>> Source unpacked.
!!! ERROR: dev-php/mod_php-4.3.2-r4 failed.
!!! Function php_src_compile, Line 242, Exitcode 1
!!! You need a virtual/mta that provides /usr/sbin/sendmail!
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What can I do?
Never mind, simply re-emerging postfix created the /usr/sbin/sendmail file. I think it got nuked when removing ssmtp. |
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