Tom Allison wrote: > I don't know what happened. > > It seems that the debian repository and aptitude didn't tell each other > about dbmail_2.2.5rc and that started everything into a lovely tailspin. > > I had to manually download and install the packages from nfsd to get > dbmail and dbmail-pgsql to understand that they were friends and > supposed to play nice at 2.2.5. > > It's working now. > > But I've had problems in the past where the debian repository @ nfsd > isn't reporting in aptitude what I'm able to see in the browser. This > has prevented me from upgrades in the past as well. I've included my > preferences and sources data and would really appreciate any eyes that > could look for something that might be amiss. Please note that the > debian.org testing branch is usually commented out and was only include > herein because I was trying to upgrade to 2.2.3 in debian -testing > (which also didn't go well).
And 2.2.3 as in debian/testing is actually pretty horribly broken in the IMAP department. > > I don't believe the problems have ever been directly attributed to > dbmail but the debian packaging configuration that I have on this > particular box. I have a preference to keep things on debian-stable as > much as possible with the exception of dbmail which is currently not > listed in the debian-stable branch. yes. But I've begun providing stable packages again on nfgd.net. The 2.2.5rc3-1 packages are what you want. > > Since there is no debian-stable packages for dbmail, I can go with > either debian-testing or nfsd-stable, but I'm not having much luck with > them from time to time. Since the release of etch, I myself am bound to use the nfgd/stable packages on most if not all of my production systems. > I would love to PIN these packages if I could > figure out how to do that so I can upgrade at my discretion. Having the > house mail server go down when the wife is expecting email about job > applications makes my life pretty unbearable and rightfully so. Please > help a fellow avoid these lovely moments... > > Maybe the best question I can ask for now is: > how do I specify Pinning for dbmail packages? Not a clue. Been using debian of 10 years now, but never had to resort to pinning. -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
