equivs package usage
At the beginning of May, Colin Watson kindly gave me the following
advice to solve a problem I then had. I changed my whole approach to
an email setup and did not use his advice. Now, having again 'changed
direction', I need to change 'postfix' for 'nullmailer'. ( I had installed
nullmail after compiling from a tarball, was having problems, and
discovered Adam McKenna had produced a .deb)
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> (1) Make a dummy qmail package with equivs, and have it provide
> mail-transport-agent;
>
> (2) dpkg --install qmail.deb
>
> (3) Watch dpkg automatically remove ssmtp in favour of qmail.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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I've had a couple of fruitless attempts. Can't seem to create a
dummy nullmailer package - there doesn't seem to be a suitable
example to put into ns-control. Then again, if I do get a dummy
package what do I do with it (I presume (2) refers to the main .deb
and not the dummy). I can create packages by following the docs,
but not the right kind.
Can anyone let me know what an acceptable ns-control file should
look like?
Grateful for any help, John.
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