At 12:08 20/02/2003, Mozzi wrote:
I upgraded my production MM 2.0.13 to MM 2.1 (and later that to 2.1.1) by installing over the old installation without any problems. The machine concerned supports over 460 lists, some with archives and some without, and conversion was a non-event; only a 20 minute interruption in service. I did set up a few scripts using $prefix/bin/withlist and base on $prefix/bin/fix_url.py to sort out some of the list attributes that were not to my liking after the upgrade.Hallo all I am upgrading to 2.1 now from 2.0.13 a couple of questionsHow safe is it to install into the previuos mailman directory (/home/mailman)? If I do not install in the old directory how easy is it to copy my lists across?
Just make sure you read the install and upgrade notes thoroughly and watch out for potential problems if you have used things like patch #413752 on your MM 2.0.x installation.
I confess I cheat by doing test runs: I installed MM 2.0.13 with all the patches I was using on my production MM 2.0.13 system onto my secondary server, added some sample lists and then did a trial upgrade to MM 2.1 (initially beta). Repeated this until upgrading the test system was completely trouble free; then doing the real thing was a non-event. Doing this was where I sorted out the fixup scripts I needed, and found the sting in the tail of patch #413752 and developed patch #651406 to fix it (which btw works OK with MM 2.1 and 2.1.1 source).
I started using this test upgrade approach when I first upgraded from MM 2.0.3 and have stuck with it ever since. Train hard, fight easy!
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