On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 18:43:11 +1100 "Trent W. Buck" <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: postfix > Version: 3.1.3-1 > Severity: normal > > I provide my own main.cf in a separate .deb via config-package-dev. > > So I preseed postfix to disable postinst's main.cf: > > debconf-set-selections <<< 'postfix postfix/main_mailer_type select No configuration' > > This worked (with some postfix-multi warnings) about a month ago, but now I get this: > > root@slime:~# dpkg --configure postfix > Setting up postfix (3.1.3-1) ... > > Postfix was not set up. Start with > cp /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.debian /etc/postfix/main.cf > . 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 'service postfix reload'. > > cp: cannot stat '/etc/postfix/main.cf': No such file or directory > dpkg: error processing package postfix (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-5) ... > Errors were encountered while processing: > postfix > > I think this is due to the #838528 fix being a bit over-enthusiastic: > > root@slime:~# sed -i 1s/$/vx/ /var/lib/dpkg/info/postfix.postinst > root@slime:~# dpkg --configure postfix > [...] > # Make sure we have main/master.cf.proto for multi-inst (#838528) > if [ ! -f /etc/postfix/main.cf.proto ]; then > cp /etc/postfix/main.cf /etc/postfix/main.cf.proto > fi > + [ ! -f /etc/postfix/main.cf.proto ] > + cp /etc/postfix/main.cf /etc/postfix/main.cf.proto > cp: cannot stat '/etc/postfix/main.cf': No such file or directory > dpkg: error processing package postfix (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-5) ... > Errors were encountered while processing: > postfix > > I am not sure how this should be fixed.
Thanks. What I uploaded copied from the wrong place, thus your error. Easy enough (and more correct) to use the one from /usr/share/postfix/ which will always be there. Scott K
