I tried yesterday unsuccessfully from upgrade mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6 on Centos 4 to the latest 2.1.11 from sourceforge.
When I ran "configure" it said I needed to install Python from source or install the Python-devel package, so I installed the python-devel. # yum -y install python-devel Then "configure" said my mailman package path was not in "/usr/local/mailman", which it is not, it is in "/usr/lib/mailman". So, within the unpackaged mailman 2.1.11 dir, I did a global replace to put my path in there: # perl -pi -e 's/usr\/local\/mailman/usr\/lib\/mailman/g' `find ./ -type f` Then "configure" ran successfully, then ran "make", then "make install". All seemed to go well. I did "check_perms" and fixed permissions. started up mailman "service mailman start", and all seemed to be running fine, but now none of my lists showed "lists_lists". My "mm_cfg.py" was untouched. Being in a hurry because I didn't alert any of the lists members of downtime, I freaked out and restored my system. Luckily I just did a full backup of my LVM, so booted up via live CD and restored the LVM from the dump file and was back online. Is there anything special to do when updating from source? I've usually done it from RPM packages. Any pointers? Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9