27763 – strange loops when trying to install sendmail

Bug 27763 - strange loops when trying to install sendmail

Summary: strange loops when trying to install sendmail

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1343

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2003-09-02 02:47 UTC by Mark Chappell
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:36 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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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 ***