Re: how to exclude a package

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:45:26AM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
>
>> Chuck Payne wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I got a problem, I am using cpanel it keeps replacing postfix with exim.
>>> I like to know what is the simplest way to tell apt-get not to install
>>> exim. I have try to google, but most of the stuff I am reading makes it
>>> sound like you can't tell apt-get not to install app.
>>>
>> aptitude hold postfix
>>
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> will that not prevent him from getting postfix updates?
>
> so far as I know, postfix provides "mail-transport-agent" so if
> postfix is installed, anything that depends on "mta" should be
> happy. There may be something else going on there with some packages
> in your install specifying exim instead of mta
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Ok, what is happen is cpanel doesn't care that postfix is install, it replaces every time with exim every time it does it own update. I was hoping that there was a way to stop cpanel from replacing postfix by editing one of the apt conf files. That what going on guys. I am not doing the install. It's cpanel.

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