On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 03:46:01PM -0500, David wrote:
[...]
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 05:56:27PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 02:23:29AM +0800, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>>> baptista@??? (Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira) writes:
>>>> I'm still forced to use exim 3 because debian unstable isnt supporting
>>>> exim 4 oficially yet.
[...]
>>> You could just build a deb package for yourself if you want to keep things
>>> cleaner...
> Yes, this is one way.. This, or installing one of the unofficial
> packages.. I've downloaded a couple of .debs, Marc Merlin's with the
> sa-exim patch, and another from somewhere else. I tried a "dpkg
> --no-act install" for each.. with Marc's, I'll have to first remove
> exim 3.5, and with it all packages that depend upon
> mail-transport-agent.
You can't have to MTA's installed at the same time. If you installed
the exim4 package with e.g. dselect, selecting exim4 would _only_
dselect the old exim package.
As a workaround you can do
dpkg -r --force-depends exim
dpkg -i /path/to/marcs/exim4.deb
> I know that I could reinstall them, but it's
> still a bit of extra work. Also, removing exim wouldn't removing exim
> remove the /etc/init.d, cron, etc files, too?
[snip, no time for that now.]
No. Configurationfiles will only be deleted on _purge_. They'll
probably not be used/touched by the exim4 package - shared
configuration files are difficult, but you can go back to exim3
without reconfiguring.
All that is assuming, Marc's package is well made - I'll take a look
today and provide details.
cu andreas
