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postfix and postfix-pcre are installed together
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Package: postfix
Version: 2.3.3-1
Severity: normal
The combination install of postfix and postfix-pcre seems to fine.
Everything also works fine when installed. However the postfix and
postfix-pcre packages are not configured under the apt repository. This
means that the mail-transport-agent isn't being "Provide"d like it
should be.
It appears to me that this bug maybe similar to #348645 (which I know
has been resolved. But I am not entirely sure. I have my installation
pinned as testing which is noted later in this email. That is the
reason that I haven't experimented yet with postfix 2.3.3-4.
What appears to be happening to me is that newaliases is trying to run
using the proper information obtained from my /etc/postfix/main.cf and
it isn't working because newaliases builds a map and I have in my
main.cf:
alias_maps = pcre:/etc/postfix/aliases
alias_database = pcre:/etc/postfix/aliases
This means that newaliases won't work since its not the expected
key/value pair of a regular hash:/etc/postfix/aliases file.
When I attempt to do an upgrade, the following happens:
hood:~# apt-cache policy postfix
postfix:
Installed: 2.3.3-1
Candidate: 2.3.3-1
Version table:
2.3.3-4 0
600 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
*** 2.3.3-1 0
650 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
hood:~# apt-get install postfix
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
postfix is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 49 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up postfix (2.3.3-1) ...
Postfix configuration was not changed. If you need to make changes,
edit
/etc/postfix/main.cf (and others) as needed. To view Postfix
configuration
values, see postconf(1).
After modifying main.cf, be sure to run '/etc/init.d/postfix reload'.
Running newaliases
postalias: fatal: dict_mkmap_func: unsupported dictionary type: pcre
does not allow map creation.
dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of postfix-pcre:
postfix-pcre depends on postfix; however:
Package postfix is not configured yet.
postfix-pcre depends on postfix (= 2.3.3-1); however:
Package postfix is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing postfix-pcre (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
postfix
postfix-pcre
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Thanks for the support,
Eric
http://eric.lubow.org/
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages postfix depends on:
ii adduser 3.97 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.6 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.13.22 package maintenance system for Deb
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdb4.3 4.3.29-6 Berkeley v4.3 Database Libraries [
ii libsasl2 2.1.19.dfsg1-0.5 Authentication abstraction library
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8c-3 SSL shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.1-15 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii netbase 4.25 Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii ssl-cert 1.0.13 Simple debconf wrapper for openssl
Versions of packages postfix recommends:
ii mailx [mail-read 1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent
ii mutt [mail-reade 1.5.13-1 text-based mailreader supporting M
-- debconf information excluded
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On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 01:25:42PM -0500, Eric Lubow wrote:
> What appears to be happening to me is that newaliases is trying to run
> using the proper information obtained from my /etc/postfix/main.cf and
> it isn't working because newaliases builds a map and I have in my
> main.cf:
> alias_maps = pcre:/etc/postfix/aliases
> alias_database = pcre:/etc/postfix/aliases
> postalias: fatal: dict_mkmap_func: unsupported dictionary type: pcre
> does not allow map creation.
you need to have this:
alias_maps = pcre:/etc/postfix/aliases
alias_database =
# The alias_database parameter specifies the alias database(s) that
# are built with "newaliases" or "sendmail -bi". This is a separate
# configuration parameter, because alias_maps (see above) may specify
# tables that are not necessarily all under control by Postfix.
lamont
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