emerge sendmail fails; any advice on how to proceed would be appreciated Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install gentoo from sources on x86 machine 2. emerge sendmail Actual Results: gentoo ~ # uname -a Linux gentoo 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 #13 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jul 24 12:32:43 Local time zone must be set- i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux gentoo ~ # emerge sendmail Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] net-nds/openldap-2.3.43 USE="berkdb crypt gdbm ipv6 kerberos minimal perl ssl tcpd -debug -odbc -overlays -samba -sasl (-selinux) -slp -smbkrb5passwd" [ebuild N ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2 USE="ipv6 ssl -mailwrapper -md5sum" [ebuild N ] mail-filter/procmail-3.22-r7 USE="-mbox (-selinux)" [ebuild N ] mail-mta/sendmail-8.14.0 USE="ipv6 ldap ssl tcpd -mailwrapper -mbox -nis -sasl -sockets" [blocks B ] mail-mta/sendmail (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) [blocks B ] mail-mta/ssmtp (is blocking mail-mta/sendmail-8.14.0) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. Expected Results: it should have worked
Please mask ssmtp locally as a workaround for an incredible old Portage bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1343 ***