[Pkg-exim4-users] exim4 problem

Martin Reising mreising+eximusers at nixhier.org
Tue Oct 21 14:56:49 UTC 2008


On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:35:58PM +0200, Lothar Ketterer wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:20:58PM +0200, Martin Reising wrote:
> >  dpkg -s /var/spool/exim4
> 
> no, it's "dpkg -S".

You are right; damed typo.

> And it doesn't report a package that this directory belongs to.

This is only right for etch und etch-backports, but lenny and sid
show exim4-base.

> But with the rest you are right, of course. exim4-base and
> exim4-daemon-* should be the right packages to reinstall, i guess?

Since exim4-daemon-* are depending on exim4-base this is resonable
solution.
But reinstall could be fail if the package pre- and/or post-install
behave diffrently between install+config and reinstall. In this case
pruge and install is the easiest solution.

-- 
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