ID: 700PHID: PHID-TASK-wbjbhz3vrqpmoxwdi7enAuthor: JasonJAyalaPStatus at Migration Time: resolvedPriority at Migration Time: High
exim4 causes errors when installing genmkfile. You get into a bunch of error messages saying X is not installed because Y isn’t configured. If you go one-by-one dpkg --configure, it eventually installs. Am I the only one getting this?
2017-07-01 18:28:47 UTC
Works for me. Please post error messages.
Install build dependencies.
cd Whonix
sudo -E ./build-steps.d/1100_prepare-build-machine --internalrun --build --target virtualbox
It’s a good chance to use a Build Configuration and use cowbuilder package build method.
Whonix ™ Source Code Introduction
export make_use_cowbuilder=true
2017-07-09 01:58:35 UTC
To compile and install in Whonix 14 workstation or GW, I have to install genmkfile…
$ sudo apt-get install genmkfile
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
dpkg: error processing package exim4-base (–configure):
dpkg: error processing package exim4-daemon-light (–configure):
dpkg: error processing package mailutils (–configure):
$ sudo dpkg --configure exim4-config
Then I can do make deb-icup
2017-07-09 11:55:19 UTC
JasonJAyalaP (Jason J. Ayala P.):
$ sudo apt-get install genmkfile
You missed to post the part which shows the confirmation yes/no. It’s an
It looks like a Debian bug. A bug in some postinst script. The sameexim4-daemon-light?
Does it happen only on Whonix 14? Or does it also happen on plain Debian
Quite possibly some package added exim4 as Recommends:. Try installingRecommends:.
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends genmkfile
(That’s also what the build script does. We only use explicitRecommends:, because these are messy, because these
2017-07-09 12:01:24 UTC
JasonJAyalaP (Jason J. Ayala P.):
I think do
Unless you prefer that file manage, while would that be required?
but that doesnt install build essentials, and so I
Not a bug btw. Debian doesn’t want Build-Depends: build-essential somehow.
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/build-depends-on-build-essential.html
apt-cache show build-essential
2017-07-11 22:45:41 UTC
user@host:~/whonix-ws-desktop-shortcuts$ sudo apt-get install genmkfile
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
alsa-base pidgin-improved-privacy
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
at autoconf automake autopoint autotools-dev dctrl-tools debhelper
debian-keyring devscripts dh-autoreconf dh-strip-nondeterminism diffstat
dput equivs exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light fakeroot gettext
guile-2.0-libs intltool-debian libarchive-zip-perl
libb-hooks-endofscope-perl libcgi-fast-perl libcgi-pm-perl
libclass-accessor-perl libclass-inspector-perl
libclass-method-modifiers-perl libclass-xsaccessor-perl libclone-perl
libconvert-binhex-perl libdata-optlist-perl
libdevel-globaldestruction-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libdistro-info-perl
libemail-valid-perl libfakeroot libfcgi-perl libfile-basedir-perl
libfile-chdir-perl libfile-homedir-perl libfile-stripnondeterminism-perl
libfile-which-perl libgc1c2 libgetopt-long-descriptive-perl
libgit-wrapper-perl libgsasl7 libhttp-daemon-perl libimport-into-perl
libio-pty-perl libio-sessiondata-perl libio-socket-inet6-perl
libio-string-perl libio-stringy-perl libipc-run-perl
libipc-system-simple-perl libkyotocabinet16v5 liblist-compare-perl
libltdl-dev libmail-sendmail-perl libmailutils5 libmariadbclient18
libmime-tools-perl libmodule-implementation-perl libmodule-runtime-perl
libmoo-perl libnamespace-clean-perl libnet-dns-perl libnet-domain-tld-perl
libnet-ip-perl libntlm0 libnumber-compare-perl libnumber-range-perl
libossp-uuid-perl libossp-uuid16 libpackage-stash-perl
libpackage-stash-xs-perl libparams-classify-perl libparams-util-perl
libparams-validate-perl libparse-debianchangelog-perl
libpath-iterator-rule-perl libpath-tiny-perl libperlio-gzip-perl
libpod-constants-perl librole-tiny-perl libscalar-list-utils-perl
libsigsegv2 libsoap-lite-perl libsocket6-perl libsort-key-perl
libsort-versions-perl libstrictures-perl libstring-copyright-perl
libstring-escape-perl libsub-exporter-perl
libsub-exporter-progressive-perl libsub-identify-perl libsub-install-perl
libsub-name-perl libsys-hostname-long-perl libtask-weaken-perl
libtext-glob-perl libtext-levenshtein-perl libtool libtry-tiny-perl
libunicode-utf8-perl libvariable-magic-perl libxml-parser-perl
libxmlrpc-lite-perl libyaml-libyaml-perl licensecheck lintian m4 mailutils
mailutils-common mysql-common patchutils po-debconf python-apt
python-apt-common python-chardet python-debian python-gpg python3-apt
python3-chardet python3-debian python3-magic strip-nondeterminism t1utils
wdiff
Suggested packages:
autoconf-archive gnu-standards autoconf-doc debtags dh-make adequate
autopkgtest bls-standalone build-essential check-all-the-things
cvs-buildpackage devscripts-el diffoscope disorderfs dose-extra duck
gnuplot how-can-i-help libauthen-sasl-perl libfile-desktopentry-perl
libnet-smtps-perl libterm-size-perl libyaml-syck-perl mozilla-devscripts
mutt piuparts ratt reprotest svn-buildpackage w3m mini-dinstall eximon4
exim4-doc-html | exim4-doc-info spf-tools-perl swaks gettext-doc
libasprintf-dev libgettextpo-dev libtool-doc uuid libscalar-number-perl
libhtml-template-perl libxml-simple-perl libapache2-mod-perl2
libmime-lite-perl libnet-jabber-perl libbareword-filehandles-perl
libindirect-perl libmultidimensional-perl gfortran | fortran95-compiler
gcj-jdk binutils-multiarch libtext-template-perl m4-doc mailutils-mh
mailutils-doc libmail-box-perl python-apt-dbg python-apt-doc
python3-apt-dbg wdiff-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
at autoconf automake autopoint autotools-dev dctrl-tools debhelper
debian-keyring devscripts dh-autoreconf dh-strip-nondeterminism diffstat
dput equivs exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light fakeroot genmkfile
gettext guile-2.0-libs intltool-debian libarchive-zip-perl
libb-hooks-endofscope-perl libcgi-fast-perl libcgi-pm-perl
libclass-accessor-perl libclass-inspector-perl
libclass-method-modifiers-perl libclass-xsaccessor-perl libclone-perl
libconvert-binhex-perl libdata-optlist-perl
libdevel-globaldestruction-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libdistro-info-perl
libemail-valid-perl libfakeroot libfcgi-perl libfile-basedir-perl
libfile-chdir-perl libfile-homedir-perl libfile-stripnondeterminism-perl
libfile-which-perl libgc1c2 libgetopt-long-descriptive-perl
libgit-wrapper-perl libgsasl7 libhttp-daemon-perl libimport-into-perl
libio-pty-perl libio-sessiondata-perl libio-socket-inet6-perl
libio-string-perl libio-stringy-perl libipc-run-perl
libipc-system-simple-perl libkyotocabinet16v5 liblist-compare-perl
libltdl-dev libmail-sendmail-perl libmailutils5 libmariadbclient18
libmime-tools-perl libmodule-implementation-perl libmodule-runtime-perl
libmoo-perl libnamespace-clean-perl libnet-dns-perl libnet-domain-tld-perl
libnet-ip-perl libntlm0 libnumber-compare-perl libnumber-range-perl
libossp-uuid-perl libossp-uuid16 libpackage-stash-perl
libpackage-stash-xs-perl libparams-classify-perl libparams-util-perl
libparams-validate-perl libparse-debianchangelog-perl
libpath-iterator-rule-perl libpath-tiny-perl libperlio-gzip-perl
libpod-constants-perl librole-tiny-perl libscalar-list-utils-perl
libsigsegv2 libsoap-lite-perl libsocket6-perl libsort-key-perl
libsort-versions-perl libstrictures-perl libstring-copyright-perl
libstring-escape-perl libsub-exporter-perl
libsub-exporter-progressive-perl libsub-identify-perl libsub-install-perl
libsub-name-perl libsys-hostname-long-perl libtask-weaken-perl
libtext-glob-perl libtext-levenshtein-perl libtool libtry-tiny-perl
libunicode-utf8-perl libvariable-magic-perl libxml-parser-perl
libxmlrpc-lite-perl libyaml-libyaml-perl licensecheck lintian m4 mailutils
mailutils-common mysql-common patchutils po-debconf python-apt
python-apt-common python-chardet python-debian python-gpg python3-apt
python3-chardet python3-debian python3-magic strip-nondeterminism t1utils
wdiff
0 upgraded, 132 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 53.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 101 MB of additional disk space will be used.
2017-07-11 22:46:56 UTC
2017-07-11 22:51:40 UTC
I removed genmkfile, autoremoved that huge list that came with it, did apt-get install genmkfile, it recommended the huge list, I did it again with no-recommends and it showed a multi-part list (with suggested, recommends) but only 4 requirements. It installed and worked fine (make deb-icup inside a package)
2017-07-11 22:52:46 UTC
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2017-07-13 21:52:23 UTC
JasonJAyalaP (Jason J. Ayala P.):
JasonJAyalaP added a comment.
How did install genmkfile lead to installing a mail program like exim?
I suspect some package #genmkfile depends lists some package thatDepends: or Recommends: on some package that depends on mta and/or exim.
apt-cache show genmkfile
.
reverse-depends pkg-name
Otherwise please try asking the apt-get developers for what could be theRecommends: tree or
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2017-08-25 10:53:31 UTC
I can’t reproduce this issue on my side. Tested it with the gateway and workstation 14.0.0.2.6 and with a self build gateway on 14.0.0.4.1. Installing genmkfile works in each case.@JasonJAyalaP can you still reproduce this error on your side?
2017-08-30 19:41:39 UTC
Whonix gateway 14.0.2.6 upgraded with developers repo:
install genmkfile → 140 MB including lib-sendmail-perl, etc
The new genmkfile wants devscripts, but devscripts recommends 125 mb of packages that aren’t necessary (i assume?) for us. Even if it did install MTAs without problems, genmkfile shouldn’t put all that on our system, right?
It’s painful that “recommended” cascades down into every dependency, but since genmkfile is a developer tool, we can simply always say in the wiki “use --no-install-recommends”.
2017-08-30 20:42:21 UTC
2017-08-30 22:22:34 UTC