From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-64538-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1HsxD7-00042A-Bt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 08:37:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4T8ZNDs016519; Tue, 29 May 2007 08:35:23 GMT Received: from outbound.mailhop.org (outbound.mailhop.org [63.208.196.171]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4T8STMc007450 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 29 May 2007 08:28:30 GMT Received: from c-67-168-161-74.hsd1.wa.comcast.net ([67.168.161.74] helo=daevid.com) by outbound.mailhop.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from <daevid@daevid.com>) id 1Hsx48-000AAO-Vp for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 04:28:29 -0400 Received: from locutus ([10.10.10.69]) by daevid.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.54) id 1Hsx47-0004iL-Ag for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 01:28:27 -0700 X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Originating-IP: 67.168.161.74 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.mailhop.org/outbound/abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX18ym1q9z581y0sum6C76BTL From: "Daevid Vincent" <daevid@daevid.com> To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> Subject: [gentoo-user] mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 01:27:59 -0700 Message-ID: <060f01c7a1cb$55d9ab30$450a0a0a@locutus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 thread-index: Acehy0Oetpgh2ManQ6aUqY36J0lUlA== X-Archives-Salt: 94df5e65-7786-4d6b-a6da-5ef7126d144e X-Archives-Hash: 116a204f403900bbbc9ed92aad452363 I haven't done an emerge on my server in quite a while, but now that I've upgraded the CPU/RAM, I figure it's about time. There are a few packages I'm a bit apprehensive about upgrading. "exim" being one. I hate that MTA. It was a nightmare to setup and get working properly, and now I don't want to break it. (a friend set it up actually, as that was the MTA he used.) daevid portage # esearch exim * mail-mta/exim Latest version available: 4.67 Latest version installed: 4.54 Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] Homepage: http://www.exim.org/ So I have this in my package.mask: >=mail-mta/exim-4.55 (Is this upgrade from 4.54 to 4.67 very smooth? Should I worry? I dread having to deal with exim.conf again, and the exim users list is very elitist. Usually saying RTFM for most issues -- but they all are experts or mail admins. I'm not. Nor do I want to be.) But when I do an "emerge -aut world", I get this blocking issue: These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: ...snip... [nomerge ] x11-misc/xscreensaver-5.02 [5.01-r2] [nomerge ] x11-apps/appres-1.0.1 [1.0.0] [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libX11-1.1.1-r1 [1.0.3-r1] USE="-xcb%" [nomerge ] sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r10 [4.1-r9] [ebuild N ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2 USE="ipv6 ssl -mailwrapper -md5sum" [nomerge ] kde-base/kdegraphics-3.5.5-r2 [3.5.5] [nomerge ] media-libs/lcms-1.15 [1.14-r1] USE="-tiff*" [nomerge ] dev-lang/swig-1.3.31 [1.3.25] USE="ruby* -lua% -mono% -ocaml% -pike%" [nomerge ] dev-lang/php-5.2.2-r1 [5.2.1-r3] [nomerge ] net-misc/curl-7.15.1-r1 [7.15.1] USE="ldap* -idn*" [ebuild U ] net-nds/openldap-2.3.30-r2 [2.3.27] USE="-smbkrb5passwd%" [nomerge ] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.3.3 [6.2.9.5] [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libXt-1.0.5 [1.0.4] ...snip... [blocks B ] mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (also, I never understand the --tree option. Does this mean that "vixie-cron" is the issue, or "kdegraphics" is the issue? Being reverse order, I am guessing vixie-cron, yet it says "nomerge" so that seems like, why would it care, plus it's worked fine all these years with the exim I have installed. Conversely, why would kdegraphics give a hoot about a mail transport? I don't get it.) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list