Re: Conflicting alternatives

2021-02-22 Thread Kevin Shell
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 01:39:18PM +, Curt wrote: > On 2021-02-22, Kevin Shell wrote: > >> > >> Maybe it's some problem specific to news.free.fr. > >> > > > > How the two sites news.bofh.it/erode.bofh.it news.free.fr are connected? >

Re: How to view a troff formatted file?

2021-02-22 Thread Kevin Shell
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 07:08:12AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-02-22 at 07:04, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I have downloaded a program with a man-page in troff format. > > How do I view it? > > The naive approach would be to try: > > $ man -l /path/to/man-page-file > > There are probab

Re: Conflicting alternatives

2021-02-22 Thread Kevin Shell
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 10:18:36AM -, Curt wrote: > On 2021-02-22, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > I'm not aware of doing anything special, just reply-to-list (Cc'd you on=20 > > this message though). > > > > Is it only my messages you are missing? > > > > You do appear here on the gmane server

Re: Conflicting alternatives

2021-02-17 Thread Kevin Shell
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 02:31:27PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > Yes, sorry; I was thinking about Stefan's comment about "running > two different SMTP servers on two different interfaces", which seems > to be +some+ sort of use case. Might they then be able to deliver > to the a common MDA? > >

Re: Conflicting alternatives

2021-02-17 Thread Kevin Shell
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 10:49:35AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-02-17 at 10:25, David Wright wrote: > [...] > I think what he's wanting is a case which would allow installing > busybox-static, but not insist on removing busybox. (Or the equivalent > in his actual use-case, where the files

Re: Conflicting alternatives

2021-02-17 Thread Kevin Shell
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 07:19:52PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > [...] > It'd be work in the DPKG/APT code, yes. But it would require no extra > work from the people doing the packaging. > I know little technical details about the Debian package manager, from an end user's perspective, the pac

Re: Debian switchable MTA mechanism

2021-02-16 Thread Kevin Shell
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 07:47:51AM +0800, Kevin Shell wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 07:39:15AM +0800, Kevin Shell wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 04:38:06PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 16 Feb 2021 at 17:48:25 (+0800), Kevin Shell wrote: > > > >

Re: Debian switchable MTA mechanism

2021-02-16 Thread Kevin Shell
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 07:39:15AM +0800, Kevin Shell wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 04:38:06PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 16 Feb 2021 at 17:48:25 (+0800), Kevin Shell wrote: > > > [...] > > > Isn't Debian already has a /etc/alternatives/ mechanism?

Re: Debian switchable MTA mechanism

2021-02-16 Thread Kevin Shell
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 04:38:06PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 16 Feb 2021 at 17:48:25 (+0800), Kevin Shell wrote: > [...] > > Isn't Debian already has a /etc/alternatives/ mechanism? > > AIUI all the targets of /etc/alternatives are all installed at the

Re: Debian switchable MTA mechanism

2021-02-16 Thread Kevin Shell
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 08:33:50AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Kevin Shell wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 06:39:03AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > [...] > > > Don't purge them. Just install each of them in turn. Then the > > > command to move to the next on

Re: Debian switchable MTA mechanism

2021-02-16 Thread Kevin Shell
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 08:33:50AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Kevin Shell wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 06:39:03AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > [...] > > > Don't purge them. Just install each of them in turn. Then the > > > command to move to the next on

Re: Debian switchable MTA mechanism

2021-02-16 Thread Kevin Shell
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 06:39:03AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > You have an unusual use-case. > yeah, weird use case. 🤓 > > > > Fedora, Centos etc. allow users to install multiple MTAs at the same > > > > multiple MTAs at the same time. > [...] > Don't purge them. Just install each of them in

Re: Debian switchable MTA mechanism

2021-02-16 Thread Kevin Shell
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 11:13:36AM +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > Hi Kevin. > > What is the use-case for multiple MTAs, port 25 is only one. > I run a VPS, for study purpose to switch between MTAs not having to remove one to get the other, I want to keep them installed at the same time. You ca

Re: Debian switchable MTA mechanism

2021-02-16 Thread Kevin Shell
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 11:29:54AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 16 feb 21, 16:37:20, Kevin Shell wrote: > > Hello Debian Users. > > > > Why Debian does't have a switchable MTA mechanism > > to allow install multiple MTAs at the same time? > > Why

Debian switchable MTA mechanism

2021-02-16 Thread Kevin Shell
Hello Debian Users. Why Debian does't have a switchable MTA mechanism to allow install multiple MTAs at the same time? Fedora, Centos etc. allow users to install multiple MTAs at the same time. There's a "alternatives --config mta" command to allow to choose between alternative MTA. -- kevin