Several weeks ago I upgraded from Debian Woody in the following way: I put the following line into my /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://debian.jones.dk woody misc If I remember right, this depository is maintained by the same person who also maintains the official debian packages. Then apt-get update; apt-get install mailman pulled in mailman version 2.1.2 for me. (This is not the latest one, testing has already 2.1.3) After installing mailman I commented that line in sources.list out again and did another apt-get update, because there are other backported packages at that site which I did not want. I have a simple setup with no virtual hosting, and the only hitch for me was that /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py needed a couple of additional lines, I think one was DEFAULT_URL_HOST = I found out about this because I had another box with Debian testing installed, which did not have an old version of mailman but a fresh install, and I looked there to compare. I am enclosing below the mm_cfg.py of the machine I was talking about, then you can see what needs to be added. I also had to create the mailman list, but before adding the other lines into /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py it wouldn't let me create any new lists. Other than this it went smoothly. # -*- python -*- # Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License # as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 # of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. """This is the module which takes your site-specific settings. >From a raw distribution it should be copied to mm_cfg.py. If you already have an mm_cfg.py, be careful to add in only the new settings you want. The complete set of distributed defaults, with annotation, are in ./Defaults. In mm_cfg, override only those you want to change, after the from Defaults import * line (see below). Note that these are just default settings - many can be overridden via the admin and user interfaces on a per-list or per-user basis. Note also that some of the settings are resolved against the active list setting by using the value as a format string against the list-instance-object's dictionary - see the distributed value of DEFAULT_MSG_FOOTER for an example.""" ####################################################### # Here's where we get the distributed defaults. # from Defaults import * ############################################################## # Put YOUR site-specific configuration below, in mm_cfg.py . # # See Defaults.py for explanations of the values. # DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = 'maillists.somewhere.com' DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'maillists.somewhere.com' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'maillists.somewhere.com' DEFAULT_URL = 'http://maillists.somewhere.com/mailman/' IMAGE_LOGOS = '/doc/mailman/images/' USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER = 0 DEFAULT_SEND_REMINDERS = 0 MAILMAN_OWNER = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' % DEFAULT_HOST_NAME # PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = '/pipermail' PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL = '/mailman/private' # Note - if you're looking for something that is imported from mm_cfg, but you # didn't find it above, it's probably in Defaults.py. -- Hans G. Ehrbar http://www.econ.utah.edu/ehrbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Economics Department, University of Utah (801) 581 7797 (my office) 1645 Campus Center Dr., Rm 308 (801) 581 7481 (econ office) Salt Lake City UT 84112-9300 (801) 585 5649 (FAX) ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
