On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:57:23 -0700 Joel Osburn wrote: > > Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > The problem is that mod_php depends on a virtual/mta package. You > > have postfix installed which provides that package, but you masked > > the current versions (have a look at /usr/portage/net-mail/postfix > > to see all available versions, I think your masking needs to be > > updated). If you would not have postfix installed I think portage > > would install the default virtual/mta (net-mail/ssmtp), but this > > would be a problem too > as > > it conflicts with postfix. > > I realize that mod_php depends on virtual/mta, but are you saying that > dependencies can ONLY be satisfied by packages in portage, that once a > package is removed from portage, even if it is currently installed, it > will never again fulfill a dependency? I have other packages that > depend on virtual/mta; if postfix suddenly is unable to fulfill the > virtual/mta slot, shouldn't they too be complaining about this?
Not sure where portage looks up the dependencies, either from /usr/portage , /var/db/pkg or /var/cache/edb. Are the other packages also updated ? When not they won't complain. > If that is true, and since I've masked all versions of postfix in > portage, then why doesn't it attempt to install net-mail/ssmtp? > Instead it dumps the error message I quoted previously, notably saying > that "!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "virtual/mta" have been > masked." I think that is because you still have a "virtual/mail net-mail/postfix" in your /var/cache/edb/virtuals, so a virtual/mta package is installed and there's no need to install another one. > I'm still searching for the missing link, either in my knowledge or in > the behaviour of this mod_php ebuild. My portage knowledge is also not complete yet. Marius -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
