On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 19:30:02 PST, Andrew Sackville-West writes: >> On one of my Sarge boxes, when I try an aptitude dist-upgrade, it wants >> to remove postfix and install exim instead. Now I don't have anything >> against exim in particular, I just don't want it on my box ;)
> try man apt_preferences. I think you can just pin exim4 to <0 and > that'll prevent it from being installed, which should subsequently > prevent postfix from being removed. Thanks, I pinned exim* to -1 and postfix* to 1001, but still aptitude wants to install exim instead of postfix. >Also, maybe you have postfix as > part of an old meta package and the meta package has been changed to > include exim4 (the current default mailer for debian) and so that is > the source of your problem. If you remove that meta-package (if it > exists) then maybe that will prevent this problem. I installed postfix right after installation myself, so it didn't get on as a dependency, BTW. cheers, &rw -- -- "Let's get married, eh?" -- "Yeah, and _then_ we'll claim we're brother & sister."
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