Re: dist-upgrade wants to remove postfix, install exim

[hendrik@topoi.pooq.com]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:01:25PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:51:55 +0100
> Robert Waldner <waldner@waldner.priv.at> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> unless you are in a real rush, give it a couple days more in case someone who knows more wants to chime in... 

I does seem to be that there's a bug here somewhere.  Maybe it could be 
fixed?

-- hendrik