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
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