Pkg exim4 users - Jan 2007 - Catch 22 with installing compiled Exim4

When I compile Exim from source, somewhere along the line
exim4-daemon-light seems to get installed to meet the mail transport
requirement.

So when I install the custom Exim package with Domainkeys support, I
get this error message.


dpkg: regarding exim4-daemon-custom_4.63-17_i386.deb containing 
exim4-daemon-custom:
 exim4-daemon-custom conflicts with mail-transport-agent
  exim4-daemon-light provides mail-transport-agent and is installed.
dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-custom_4.63-17_i386.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing exim4-daemon-custom
Errors were encountered while processing:
 exim4-daemon-custom_4.63-17_i386.deb



If I do

apt-get remove exim4-daemon-light

then that installs exim4-daemon-heavy in it''s place.

Then I can

apt-get remove exim4-daemon-heavy

and get things cleared out so I can then do

dpkg -i exim4-daemon-custom_4.63-17_i386.deb

Surely there has to be a better way, so if somebody wants to reply
with some clues, I would appreciate it.

Thanks

mark

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:50:46AM -0600, mark david mcCreary
wrote:
> Surely there has to be a better way, so if somebody wants to reply
> with some clues, I would appreciate it.
dpkg --force-depends --remove exim4-daemon-light
dpkg --install exim4-daemon-custom

Or put your exim4-daemon-custom into an aptable archive; apt handles
this case just fine.

If somebody knows an easier way, I''ll be eager to hear ;)

Greetings
Marc

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