[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >At the beginning of May, Colin Watson kindly gave me the following >advice to solve a problem I then had. I changed my whole approach to >an email setup and did not use his advice. Now, having again 'changed >direction', I need to change 'postfix' for 'nullmailer'. ( I had installed >nullmail after compiling from a tarball, was having problems, and >discovered Adam McKenna had produced a .deb) > >-------- > >> (1) Make a dummy qmail package with equivs, and have it provide >> mail-transport-agent; >> >> (2) dpkg --install qmail.deb >> >> (3) Watch dpkg automatically remove ssmtp in favour of qmail. > >-------- > >I've had a couple of fruitless attempts. Can't seem to create a >dummy nullmailer package - there doesn't seem to be a suitable >example to put into ns-control.
If you run equivs-control, it'll create a template control file for you. The equivs-build man page explains the extra fields that aren't seen in normal Debian packages. >Then again, if I do get a dummy package what do I do with it (I presume >(2) refers to the main .deb and not the dummy). At the time, I think I meant the dummy package. If you have Adam's proper package, though, you don't need an equivs dummy; since nullmailer does provide mail-transport-agent, can't you just apt-get install it (or dpkg -i, or whatever)? That should have pretty much the same effect, I think. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
