Bug 61078 - uninstall does not remove alternatives mta entries
Summary: uninstall does not remove alternatives mta entries
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: sendmail
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Florian La Roche
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-03-13 05:20 UTC by Chris Ricker
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:40 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-03-17 19:41:44 UTC
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Description Chris Ricker 2002-03-13 05:20:11 UTC 
After uninstalling sendmail, I'm left with:

[kaboom@skuld alternatives]$ sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --display mta
mta - status is manual.
 link currently points to /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
/usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail - priority 90
 slave mta-mailq: /usr/bin/mailq.sendmail
 slave mta-newaliases: /usr/bin/newaliases.sendmail
 slave mta-rmail: /usr/bin/rmail.sendmail
 slave mta-mailqman: /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.sendmail.1.gz
 slave mta-newaliasesman: /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.sendmail.1.gz
 slave mta-aliasesman: /usr/share/man/man5/aliases.sendmail.5.gz
/usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix - priority 30
 slave mta-mailq: /usr/bin/mailq.postfix
 slave mta-newaliases: /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix
 slave mta-rmail: /usr/bin/rmail.postfix
 slave mta-mailqman: /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.postfix.1.gz
 slave mta-newaliasesman: /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.postfix.1.gz
 slave mta-aliasesman: /usr/share/man/man5/aliases.postfix.5.gz
Current `best' version is /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail.
[kaboom@skuld alternatives]$ rpm -qa | egrep "(sendmail|postfix|chkconfig)"
chkconfig-1.3.1-1
postfix-1.1.4-1
[kaboom@skuld alternatives]$ 


sendmail needs to be executing

/usr/sbin/alternatives --remove mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail

in its uninstall script.
Comment 1 Florian La Roche 2002-03-13 14:43:23 UTC 
Should be fixed within newest rawhide rpm as already pushed out to
ftp.redhat.com

Thanks,

Florian La Roche
Comment 2 Chris Ricker 2002-03-17 19:41:39 UTC 
Which version should fix this?  I just tried:

chkconfig-1.3.4
ntsysv-1.3.4
postfix-1.1.4-3
sendmail-8.12.2-8

I installed all 4, then ran

# alternatives --display mta
and got output like above.

I then ran
# rpm -e sendmail

and got output
/usr/sbin/sendmail has not been configured as an alternative for mta

The package otherwise uninstalled cleanly, but left a broken mail configuration,
since it didn't remove sendmail from alternatives:

# /usr/sbin/alternatives --display mta
mta - status is auto.
 link currently points to /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
/usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail - priority 90
 slave mta-mailq: /usr/bin/mailq.sendmail
 slave mta-newaliases: /usr/bin/newaliases.sendmail
 slave mta-rmail: /usr/bin/rmail.sendmail
 slave mta-mailqman: /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.sendmail.1.gz
 slave mta-newaliasesman: /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.sendmail.1.gz
 slave mta-aliasesman: /usr/share/man/man5/aliases.sendmail.5.gz
/usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix - priority 30
 slave mta-mailq: /usr/bin/mailq.postfix
 slave mta-newaliases: /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix
 slave mta-rmail: /usr/bin/rmail.postfix
 slave mta-mailqman: /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.postfix.1.gz
 slave mta-newaliasesman: /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.postfix.1.gz
 slave mta-aliasesman: /usr/share/man/man5/aliases.postfix.5.gz
Current `best' version is /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail.

It looks like uninstall is still failing to clean up alternatives....
Comment 3 Florian La Roche 2002-03-25 14:59:57 UTC 
Ok, is now really fixed in 8.12.2-10 or newer.

Thanks for the report,

Florian La Roche
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