On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:29:40 +0200, Móczik Gábor wrote: > I want cyrus-imapd and dovecot-imapd both installed simultaneously until > migrating all the mails from Cyrus and testing the new service. > > The problem is, that apt want to remove Cyrus if I install dovecot.
What's the exact output you get from apt? > Is there a technical reason for this restriction? At a first glance I see none, both packages should be able to coexist in the same system. A different thing would be that you wanted to use both services at the same time in the same host using the standard ports... > I think, it will not cause any problems if I run dovecot on different > port, and when I finshed the migration and testing I remove Cyrus > manually. Yup, I also think so. Having a virtual/spare machine for testing these things can help in such cases. > Is there a way not to automatically remove Cyrus? I wonder what package/rule is the reason for the "break" or "conflict" here. > It's not an option to stop IMAP service for hours or so. I'm curious about the replacement, may I ask why you want to replace Cyrus for Dovecot? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jrvgre$ibc$1...@dough.gmane.org
