On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 09:35:11 PST, Andrew Sackville-West writes: > apt-cache policy exim4* shows that it conflicts and replaces any > mail-transfer-agent, so the dist-upgrade will do that and there's no > way around it I know of. > > I'm no apt- guru by any stretch, but you could --- remove (not purge!) > postfix, dist-upgrade, and the install postfix. Thats three steps > versus: dist-upgrade, remove exim4, install postfix. 3 steps. as long > as you don't purge anything, your configs will remain (you might back > them up just in case) and you should be running fine afterwards. ymmv. Well, my postfix-setup is rather complicated (I'm also running MailScanner plus a bit of local stuff with it), so backing all the necessary parts up is going to be quite a bit of work, but since it doesn't look like I have some other chance, I'll have to bite that bullet. Thanks. cheers, &rw -- -- "The PROPER way to handle HTML postings is to cancel the article, -- then hire a hitman to kill the poster, his wife and kids, and fuck -- his dog and smash his computer into little bits. Anything more is -- just extremism." - Paul Tomblin
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