282 – qmail and ssmtp provide same virtual depend

Bug 282 - qmail and ssmtp provide same virtual depend

Summary: qmail and ssmtp provide same virtual depend

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Geert Bevin

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Depends on:	86 393
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Reported:	2002-01-23 03:20 UTC by Todd Punderson
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:20 UTC (History)
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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