Bug 27763

Summary:	strange loops when trying to install sendmail
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Mark Chappell <gentoo-bugs>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	net-mail+disabled
Priority:	High
Version:	2.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mark Chappell 2003-09-02 02:47:01 UTC

What I did

emerge --unmerge mta      
  # To get rid of ssmtp
emerge sendmail           
  # After this point ssmtp and procmail were installed (but not sendmail
emerge --unmerge ssmtp
  # To get rid of ssmtp so I could install sendmail
emerge sendmail
  # This finally worked

According to peitolm
"sendmail provides virtual/mta, but if you have mbox in USE, then it pulls in
procmail. which requires virtual/mta but at the dependancy checking, I think it
doesn't realise sendmail will provide it"

I haven't put mbox into the USE, so I'm assuming this is a default.

This is the third machine I've had this happen on.

Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-26 16:22:39 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1343 ***