apt-get wants to remove openmediavault to install sendmail

sg23 · 30. November 2015

I have omv 2.1.9 on debian 7.9.
I never got around to setting up sendmail and decided today I'd go ahead and do that.

I found the package was not installed so I ran "apt-get install sendmail" and apt-get told me it wanted to remove openmediavault and asked me if that was ok. I said no, obviously. I proceeded to try to figure out why it wants to do that, figuring it was conflicting dependencies, however that appears to not be the case.

The output from apt-get and apt-cache is included below. Ideas, suggestions or even small clues would be appreciated.

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root@nas:/# apt-get -s install sendmail
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
augeas-lenses beep collectd collectd-core cron-apt dconf-gsettings-backend dconf-service gconf-service gconf2 gconf2-common
gdisk ifenslave-2.6 jfsutils libaugeas0 libcairo-gobject2 libcanberra-gtk3-0 libcanberra-gtk3-module libcanberra0 libcolord1
libcommon-sense-perl libcurl3-gnutls libdbi1 libdconf0 libesmtp6 libfile-copy-recursive-perl libgconf-2-4 libgd2-xpm libgtk-3-0
libgtk-3-bin libgtk-3-common libhal1 libicu48 libjavascript-minifier-xs-perl libjs-extjs5 libjson-perl libjson-xs-perl
liblocale-po-perl libltdl7 liblua5.1-0 libmemcached10 libmodbus5 libmysqlclient18 libnetcf1 libnl1 libnotify4 libnuma1 libogg0
libonig2 libopenipmi0 liboping0 libopts25 libossp-uuid16 libpcap0.8 libpq5 libprotobuf-c0 libpython2.7 libqdbm14 librabbitmq0
librrd4 librtmp0 libssh2-1 libtokyotyrant3 libupsclient1 libvarnishapi1 libvirt0 libvorbis0a libvorbisfile3 libxenstore3.0
libxslt1.1 libyajl2 lvm2 monit mysql-common nfs-kernel-server nginx nginx-common nginx-full notification-daemon ntp
php-json-schema php5-cgi php5-cli php5-common php5-fpm php5-pam php5-proctitle proftpd-basic proftpd-mod-vroot python3-apt
quotatool rrdcached rrdtool samba sdparm smartmontools snmpd socat tdb-tools tftpd-hpa update-inetd uuid xmlstarlet
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
make sendmail-base sendmail-bin sendmail-cf sensible-mda
Suggested packages:
make-doc sendmail-doc rmail logcheck sasl2-bin
The following packages will be REMOVED:
openmediavault openmediavault-usbbackup postfix
The following NEW packages will be installed:
make sendmail sendmail-base sendmail-bin sendmail-cf sensible-mda
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Remv openmediavault-usbbackup [2.2]
Remv openmediavault [2.1.19]
Inst make (3.81-8.2 Debian:7.9/oldstable [amd64])
Inst sendmail-base (8.14.4-4 Debian:7.9/oldstable [all])
Inst sendmail-cf (8.14.4-4 Debian:7.9/oldstable [all])
Remv postfix [2.9.6-2] [bsd-mailx:amd64 ]
Inst sendmail-bin (8.14.4-4 Debian:7.9/oldstable [amd64])
Conf make (3.81-8.2 Debian:7.9/oldstable [amd64])
Conf sendmail-base (8.14.4-4 Debian:7.9/oldstable [all])
Conf sendmail-cf (8.14.4-4 Debian:7.9/oldstable [all])
Conf sendmail-bin (8.14.4-4 Debian:7.9/oldstable [amd64])
Inst sensible-mda (8.14.4-4 Debian:7.9/oldstable [amd64])
Inst sendmail (8.14.4-4 Debian:7.9/oldstable [all])
Conf sensible-mda (8.14.4-4 Debian:7.9/oldstable [amd64])
Conf sendmail (8.14.4-4 Debian:7.9/oldstable [all])


root@nas:/# apt-cache showpkg openmediavault
Package: openmediavault
Versions:
2.1.19 (/var/lib/apt/lists/packages.openmediavault.org_public_dists_stoneburner_main_binary-amd64_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
 Description Language:
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/packages.openmediavault.org_public_dists_stoneburner_main_binary-amd64_Packages
                  MD5: f2da0f6e923a3c65da1425c2cb93d3f0


Reverse Depends:
  openmediavault-usbbackup,openmediavault 2.1.9
  openmediavault-shairport,openmediavault 2.0.11
  openmediavault-route,openmediavault 2.0.11
  openmediavault-owncloud,openmediavault 2.0.15
  openmediavault-nut,openmediavault 2.0.11
  openmediavault-netatalk,openmediavault 2.0.11
  openmediavault-lvm2,openmediavault 2.0.11
  openmediavault-ldap,openmediavault 2.0.11
  openmediavault-iscsitarget,openmediavault 2.1.14
  openmediavault-forkeddaapd,openmediavault 2.0.11
  openmediavault-clamav,openmediavault 2.1.9
Dependencies:
2.1.19 - perl (0 (null)) libjs-extjs5 (2 5.1.1) php5-fpm (0 (null)) libpam-modules (0 (null)) php5-cgi (0 (null)) php5-cli (0 (null)) php5-pam (0 (null)) php-json-schema (0 (null)) sudo (0 (null)) ethtool (0 (null)) acl (0 (null)) ifenslave (0 (null)) resolvconf (0 (null)) iproute (0 (null)) xfsprogs (0 (null)) jfsutils (0 (null)) ntfs-3g (0 (null)) hdparm (0 (null)) sdparm (0 (null)) bootlogd (0 (null)) ifupdown (0 (null)) mdadm (0 (null)) postfix (0 (null)) libsasl2-modules (0 (null)) bsd-mailx (0 (null)) ntp (0 (null)) cpufrequtils (0 (null)) rsyslog (0 (null)) smartmontools (0 (null)) openssl (0 (null)) openssh-server (0 (null)) openssh-blacklist-extra (0 (null)) uuid (0 (null)) tzdata (0 (null)) nfs-kernel-server (0 (null)) proftpd-basic (0 (null)) wget (0 (null)) tftpd-hpa (0 (null)) util-linux (0 (null)) samba (0 (null)) samba-common-bin (0 (null)) rsync (0 (null)) apt-utils (0 (null)) snmpd (0 (null)) avahi-daemon (0 (null)) libnss-mdns (0 (null)) iptables (0 (null)) monit (2 5.4) acpid (0 (null)) beep (0 (null)) gdisk (0 (null)) rrdtool (0 (null)) collectd (2 5.1.0) cron (0 (null)) anacron (0 (null)) cron-apt (0 (null)) quota (0 (null)) quotatool (0 (null)) whiptail (0 (null)) lvm2 (0 (null)) watchdog (0 (null)) ca-certificates (0 (null)) libjson-perl (0 (null)) liblocale-po-perl (0 (null)) proftpd-mod-vroot (0 (null)) libjavascript-minifier-xs-perl (0 (null)) coreutils (0 (null)) xmlstarlet (2 1.3.1) mount (0 (null)) php5-proctitle (0 (null)) parted (0 (null)) bash (0 (null)) diffutils (0 (null)) lsof (0 (null)) socat (0 (null)) rrdcached (0 (null)) locales (0 (null)) nginx (2 1.2.1) bash-completion (0 (null)) python3 (0 (null)) python3-apt (0 (null)) pm-utils (0 (null)) wpasupplicant (0 (null))
Provides:
2.1.19 -
Reverse Provides:


root@nas:/# apt-cache showpkg sendmail
Package: sendmail
Versions:
8.14.4-4 (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_wheezy_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
 Description Language:
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_wheezy_main_binary-amd64_Packages
                  MD5: 3d4ca2b4b9193fbc8369a292cbcb2d95
 Description Language: en
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_wheezy_main_i18n_Translation-en
                  MD5: 3d4ca2b4b9193fbc8369a292cbcb2d95


Reverse Depends:
  vm,sendmail
  tiger,sendmail
  spamass-milter,sendmail
  rmail,sendmail 8.13.1-7
  spf-milter-python,sendmail 8.13
  python-milter,sendmail 8.13
  nn,sendmail
  mimedefang,sendmail
  milter-greylist,sendmail
  mcron,sendmail
  mailgraph,sendmail
  mailagent,sendmail
  kuvert,sendmail
  jove,sendmail
  gross,sendmail
  diffmon,sendmail
  dhis-mx-sendmail-engine,sendmail
  amavisd-milter,sendmail
Dependencies:
8.14.4-4 - sendmail-base (0 (null)) sendmail-bin (0 (null)) sendmail-cf (0 (null)) sensible-mda (0 (null)) sendmail-doc (0 (null)) rmail (0 (null)) sendmail-base (3 8.14.4-2.2~) sendmail-base (3 8.14.4-2.2~) sendmail-tls (0 (null))
Provides:
8.14.4-4 -
Reverse Provides:

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gderf · 30. November 2015

What a mess! Can you live with postfix? It should be already installed.

sg23 · 30. November 2015

My knowledge is a about a decade or two old and I wasn't even aware that postifx is another MTA, i.e. sendmail alternative... so to answer the question: yes, postfix will probably do just fine. I have a feeling it is not set up correctly because the first thing I did was try to send myself a mail using "echo test | mail -s test root" and that command did nothing- it completed successfully (apparently) yet I cannot find any mail using "mail" or by looking in /var/mail.

Thanks for the help.

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