Conflicting MTA Packages and fai-mirror

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:04:05 +0200, Rene Caspari <liste.linux-fai at ahrcas.net> said:

    > I want to use two different MTA (Postfix and Exim) for severeal FAI
    > classes. If I use fai-mirror to build the mirror, it fails with a
    > conflict, that Postfix is not installable.

    > Maybe apt fails because of two concurrent MTA packages...?
Yes, this is a "feature" of apt. Even if you use -d (for
download-only) it complains if there are conflicts. Maybe apt should
get a new option --ignore-conflicts. But here's the workaround.
install_packages -m MAX or setting the variable MAXPACKAGES to 1 will
install^wdownload only one package at a time, so there should be not
conflicts.

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regards Thomas