On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:52:40PM +1000, Andrew Nesbit wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > It's exim. The only way to find this out is really to look through the > > list of MTAs (that is, packages providing mail-transport-agent) and see > > which one has the highest priority. (exim is 'Priority: important'; the > > priorities are required, important, standard, optional, and extra.) > > Where can I actually find this priority information? I had a look in the > lists of packages on the Debian website, but couldn't find it.
It's not very convenient to find. Once you have Debian installed, 'dpkg -p <packagename>' will tell you, or they'll be displayed in categories in dselect. Beforehand, the easiest way is probably to look at the Packages file on the FTP site (say, ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages) and look for the information there. You'll see blocks like: Package: dpkg [...] Priority: required [...] For what it's worth, the required/important/standard packages in stable for i386 are currently: required: adduser ae base-files base-passwd bash bsdutils console-data console-tools console-tools-libs debianutils diff dpkg e2fsprogs fileutils findutils grep gzip hostname ldso libc6 libgdbmg1 libncurses5 libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g libreadline4 libstdc++2.10 login makedev mawk mbr modutils mount ncurses-base ncurses-bin passwd perl-5.005-base perl-base procps sed setserial shellutils slang1 sysklogd sysvinit tar textutils update util-linux important: at bc bsdmainutils cpio cron dc ed exim groff info libident libncurses4 libopenldap-runtime libopenldap1 libpcre2 libpopt0 lilo lockfile-progs logrotate mailx man-db manpages nvi perl-5.005 whois standard: apt biff bin86 binutils bison cpp debian-policy dnsutils doc-debian doc-linux-text dpkg-dev dpkg-ftp dpkg-perl emacs20 emacsen-common fdflush file finger fingerd flex ftp g++ gcc gdb gettext-base gpm iamerican ibritish ispell less libc6-dev liblockfile1 libnet-perl libpng2 libstdc++2.10-dev libwrap0 locales lpr lsof-2.2 lynx m4 make manpages-dev mime-support mpack mtools mutt ncurses-term netbase nfs-common nfs-server patch perl-5.005-doc perl-5.005-suid pidentd ppp procmail rcs sharutils strace talk talkd tcpd tcsh tcsh-i18n telnet telnetd tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-lib texinfo time wenglish xfree86-common xlib6g zlib1g Things change a bit from release to release. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
