Bug 282

Summary:	qmail and ssmtp provide same virtual depend
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Todd Punderson <todd>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Geert Bevin <gbevin>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	86, 393
Bug Blocks:

Description Todd Punderson 2002-01-23 03:20:05 UTC

The qmail-1.03-r7.ebuild ebuild provides virtual/mta as does ssmtp-2.38.14-
r1.ebuild. In '/etc/make.profiles/virtuals' 'virtual/mta' points to 'net-
mail/ssmtp'. So once qmail is installed, anytime an 'update --world' is done, 
it thinks that ssmtp is missing and tries to install it.

As a side note in ssmtp-2.38.14-r1.ebuild the line: RDEPEND="!virtual/mtai net-
mail/mailbase" probably should read: RDEPEND="!virtual/mta net-mail/mailbase"
I'm not 100% sure on that, but while I was reporting I wanted to get that in.

As a temporary fix on my system, I edited '/etc/make.profiles/virtuals' to 
point 'virtual/mta' to 'net-mail/qmail' and it corrected the issue 
with 'update --world'.

Comment 1 Todd Punderson 2002-01-23 17:10:02 UTC

Aparently the net-mail/postfix ebuild also provides the same virtual/mta and 
causes a similar dependency problem.

Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-01-24 10:08:50 UTC

Oh! cool!  Thanks for this bug report!  I'm assigning this to Geert to see if he
wants to fix this.  Geert, if you don't wanna fix this, just reassign it back to me.

Comment 3 Geert Bevin 2002-02-04 09:17:37 UTC

fixed in cvs