MTA packaging (exim, postfix, sendmail, ssmtp)

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On 2014-10-08 11:32, Christian Franke wrote:
> The cron package is also affected. Its postinstall script sets a symlink
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/bin/cronlog if sendmail does not exist. This
> would break alternatives setting in MTA configure script because
> alternatives would never replace the existing symlink.

Good catch.

> Possible workaround: Add rm -f /usr/sbin/sendmail ... to MTA configure
> scripts.

Yes, before running alternatives.


Yaakov