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yentingchen
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 Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:50 pm Post subject: Some confusion about the vixie-cron ebuild... |
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Dear all, I'am confusing why vixie-cron depends on ssmtp.
| Code: | # emerge -pv vixie-cron
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N ] net-mail/mailbase-1 +pam 0 kB
[ebuild N ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61 +ipv6 -mailwrapper -md5sum +ssl 52 kB
[ebuild N ] sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r8 -debug +pam (-selinux) 57 kB
Total size of downloads: 109 kB |
I checked the ebuild of vixie-cron, but I didn't see the ssmtp in DEPEND or RDEPEND.
Could anyone help me?
I wish this is not a super FAQ 
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DaveArb
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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Cron mails its output to root, it needs some mail service installed. If none is installed, ssmtp is it's choice. I'm afraid I'm not a portage expert, but I believe the command that calls this in is the virtual/mta as below:
| Code: | RDEPEND="!virtual/cron
>=sys-process/cronbase-0.2.1-r3
virtual/mta
selinux? ( sys-libs/libselinux )
pam? ( sys-libs/pam )" |
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yentingchen
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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| DaveArb wrote: | Cron mails its output to root, it needs some mail service installed. If none is installed, ssmtp is it's choice. I'm afraid I'm not a portage expert, but I believe the command that calls this in is the virtual/mta as below:
| Code: | RDEPEND="!virtual/cron
>=sys-process/cronbase-0.2.1-r3
virtual/mta
selinux? ( sys-libs/libselinux )
pam? ( sys-libs/pam )" |
Dave |
Hi, 
But in my vixie-cron-4.1-r8.ebuild:
| Code: | DEPEND=">=sys-apps/portage-2.0.47-r10
selinux? ( sys-libs/libselinux )
pam? ( virtual/pam )"
RDEPEND="selinux? ( sys-libs/libselinux )
pam? ( virtual/pam )"
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There is nothing about cronbase 
Cronbase dependency only appears in vixie-cron-3.0.1-r4.ebuild and vixie-cron-3.0.1-r5.ebuild, but Portage is trying to emerge vixie-cron-4.1-r8, isn't he?  |
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DaveArb
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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Hopefully someone who actually knows portage will chime in with an answer, I don't understand how it works.
I do know that if you have cron with no mail functionality, it's not going to be very happy. 
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tomk
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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| yentingchen wrote: | But in my vixie-cron-4.1-r8.ebuild:
There is nothing about cronbase
Cronbase dependency only appears in vixie-cron-3.0.1-r4.ebuild and vixie-cron-3.0.1-r5.ebuild, but Portage is trying to emerge vixie-cron-4.1-r8, isn't he? |
The 4.1-r8 version uses the cron eclass, that is where the dependencies for cronbase and virtual/mta are.
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yentingchen
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:56 am Post subject: |
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| tomk wrote: | | yentingchen wrote: | But in my vixie-cron-4.1-r8.ebuild:
There is nothing about cronbase
Cronbase dependency only appears in vixie-cron-3.0.1-r4.ebuild and vixie-cron-3.0.1-r5.ebuild, but Portage is trying to emerge vixie-cron-4.1-r8, isn't he? |
The 4.1-r8 version uses the cron eclass, that is where the dependencies for cronbase and virtual/mta are. |
Oh, I see, thanks tomk and DaveArb.
I will read the documents about eclass. |
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DaveArb
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:01 am Post subject: |
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Thanks from here too, tomk. I'm another one who needs to start studying up.
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