emerge: Postfix 'blocked' ... what to do now?

glawrie

Help

I am working through the desktop install instructions, and trying to install 'postfix' and emerge reports that it is blocking "net-mail/ssmpt".

I've checked and can't install sendmail either (for the same reason).

Clearly I've done something to mess up the process - but what? How do I find out what has caused Gentoo to block net-mail/ssmpt? What do I do to either correct or work around this problem?

Thanks in advance for your help

Gavin

bloatboy · n00b Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Posts: 3

The blocking package, "net-mail/ssmpt", is installed by some programs (cron daemons I think) to provide basic mail delivery, or something.

What I did is:

# emerge -C ssmpt

to delete the offending application, then

# emerge -p postfix

"-p" to double-check dependencies and anything else that may cause problems

Then

# emerge postfix

10mins-8 hours later, you're all done!

glawrie · Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 11:47 pm Post subject:

Brilliant - thanks for the really helpful tip. Did the job, postfix installed, meant I've got to my next knotty install problem quicker than ever!