On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:09:04 -0700 Joel Osburn wrote:

> I'm having an odd problem:  I run postfix-1.1.11-r5, having not yet
> made the time to switch to the 2.0.x series.  Whenever I "emerge sync"
> I add">net-mail/postfix-1.1.11-r5" to the top of
> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, and then do the normal "emerge -pu
> world". 
> 
> But a couple days ago, this procedure failed with:
> 
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> 
> Calculating world dependencies -
> !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "virtual/mta" have been masked.
> !!!    (dependency required by "dev-php/mod_php-4.3.2" [ebuild])
> 
> !!! Problem with ebuild dev-php/mod_php-4.3.2
> !!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem.
> 
> !!! Depgraph creation failed.
> 
> --------
> Clearly, I have a package that satisfies virtual/mta.  I don't know if
> this is caused by the new version of portage, overzealous depend
> requirements in the mod_php ebuild, or the fact that my version of
> postfix is no longer even in portage.

Try to inject the new postfix version (or any other mta). That way
portage thinks it is installed and won't complain about it.

Marius

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