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Bug 41497 - sSMTP Nukes Other MTAs
Summary: sSMTP Nukes Other MTAs
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 68220
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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: 76197 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2004-02-13 13:22 UTC by David D. Huff Jr.
Modified: 2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
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Description David D. Huff Jr. 2004-02-13 13:22:13 UTC 
In my nightly "emerge -DU world" sSMTP fscked my MTA without uninstalling it. I just installed then munged the symlinks. Oops!

I think this has happened with several of the other mail systems in the past. If there is some override that needs to be in place, please let me know.
Comment 1 Masatomo Nakano (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-04-09 14:30:13 UTC 
please give us more information...
Comment 2 David D. Huff Jr. 2004-04-11 19:03:12 UTC 
Give me a break something happens two months ago an you want more detail?

Just like it said some dependency in my nightl "emerge -DU world" cause ssmtp to install and destroyed sendmail on every system. The problem has not happend again please close.
Comment 3 Zeek 2004-05-21 14:51:33 UTC 
This bug has been around forever and keeps getting reported as fixed but is still there.

Note in the output below how SSMTP emerges right after sendmail.  That is the bug.  When SSMTP emerges it overwrites the sendmail binaries.


sock / # emerge sendmail vixie-cron -upv

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] sys-libs/db-1.85-r1   264 kB
[ebuild  N    ] sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.0-r5  +berkdb -static  130 kB
[ebuild  N    ] net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r5   [empty/missing/bad digest]
[ebuild  N    ] net-dns/hesiod-3.0.2   31 kB
[ebuild  N    ] net-mail/sendmail-8.12.10  +berkdb -gdbm -ldap -mbox -sasl +ssl -tcpd  1,848 kB
[ebuild  N    ] net-mail/mailwrapper-0.1   6 kB
[ebuild  N    ] net-mail/ssmtp-2.60.7  -ipv6 -md5sum +ssl  59 kB
[ebuild  N    ] net-mail/procmail-3.22-r6   221 kB
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/vixie-cron-3.0.1-r4  -(selinux)  49 kB
Comment 4 Zeek 2004-05-21 14:54:15 UTC 
Look at bug 33790 for a previous report of this.
Comment 5 Asbjorn Sannes 2004-06-08 13:56:59 UTC 
It also nukes mailq for courier ..
Comment 6 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-06-08 14:32:45 UTC 
@Zeek: your problem is bug 1343
Comment 7 Martin OConnor 2005-01-02 15:39:51 UTC 
*** Bug 76197 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Martin OConnor 2005-01-02 15:48:26 UTC 
This bug could be fixed by having portage re-check its dependancies when ANY virtual gets updated - JUST like when the portage package itself gets updated :)
Comment 9 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-01-02 16:27:25 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 68220 ***