On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 09:53:11PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > >So, why can't this be done without an exim4-config package in Debian, with > >something like the following arrangement: > > exim4-daemon > > provides/conflicts: mail-transport-agent > > postinst: > > checks /etc/exim4 > > if it doesn't exist, creates it, using debconf > > exim4-config-ilkserver: > > postinst: > > rm -rf /etc/exim4 > > create /etc/exim4 according to desired config > That looks like a bad hack.
It's a bad hack if it's difficult to maintain (doesn't seem to be), or doesn't solve all the problems (may be). What you've currently got is also a bad hack -- it gets exim stuff installed where it's not wanted. The suggestion of listing every MTA specifically, rather than usuing the virtual package we already have is also a pretty horrible hack. > And it precludes the use of dpkg conffile handling for the config > snippets in /etc/exim4/conf.d Better to drop support for that than install exim4-base on non exim systems. > And it doesn't solve the problem at hand, with exim4-base being > installed on non-exim systems by dselect. Have exim4-base and exim4-daemon depend on exact versions of each other, and have exim4-base not have a postinst of its own. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Linux.conf.au 2004 -- Because we can. http://conf.linux.org.au/ -- Jan 12-17, 2004
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