Re: how to exclude a package

[bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx)]

Magnus Pedersen wrote:
> Chuck Payne wrote:
> >Ok, what is happen is cpanel doesn't care that postfix is install, it 
> >replaces every time with exim every time it does it own update. I was 
> >hoping that there was a way to stop cpanel from replacing postfix by 
> >editing one of the apt conf files. That what going on guys. I am not 
> >doing the install. It's cpanel.
>
> That dosn't make sense, cpanel dosn't depend on any mta, not exim, not 
> postfix.

It probably is through the chain of dependencies somehow pecular to
the original poster's installation.

> http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/secpanel

But that is secpanel not cpanel.  Try this one instead.

  http://packages.debian.org/oldstable/x11/cpanel

I just tried a test installation of cpanel on my oldstable Sarge
machine (cpanel is only available in Sarge) and I did not see it
wanting to removing my installed postfix.  Therefore I can't recreate
the problem.

  Inst rxvt-ml (1:2.6.4-6.2 Debian AMD64 archive:3.1r6/oldstable)
  Inst libtabe2 (0.2.5+cvs20030523-1 Debian AMD64 archive:3.1r6/oldstable)
  Inst xcin (2.5.2.99.pre2+cvs20030224-1 Debian AMD64 archive:3.1r6/oldstable)
  Inst xfonts-intl-chinese (1.2.1-3 Debian AMD64 archive:3.1r6/oldstable)
  Inst cpanel (0.4.0-1 Debian AMD64 archive:3.1r6/oldstable)
  Conf rxvt-ml (1:2.6.4-6.2 Debian AMD64 archive:3.1r6/oldstable)
  Conf libtabe2 (0.2.5+cvs20030523-1 Debian AMD64 archive:3.1r6/oldstable)
  Conf xcin (2.5.2.99.pre2+cvs20030224-1 Debian AMD64 archive:3.1r6/oldstable)
  Conf xfonts-intl-chinese (1.2.1-3 Debian AMD64 archive:3.1r6/oldstable)
  Conf cpanel (0.4.0-1 Debian AMD64 archive:3.1r6/oldstable)

Looks okay to me.

Chuck, please post the result of the following command.

  apt-get install -s cpanel

Bob