One thing to keep in mind when upgrading Mailman is that some customized templates will be overwritten. The significant ones I can think of are listinfo.html and newlist.txt. So, I always at minimum the templates directory and copy over the files after the upgrade.
Christopher Adams Mark Sapiro wrote: > Pad Hosmane wrote: > > >> We are using mailman-2.1.4 on HP-UX. It is running without any issues. Now >>we want to upgrade it to latest version 2.1.7. I searched online for >>documentation about upgrade, and I could not find any. Can anyone guide me >>how to do the upgrade or provide URL where I can get information about >>upgrade? > > > > Upgrading is very straightforward. It consists of downloading and > unpacking the distribution and running 'configure', 'make', and 'make > install'. It is described in fairly complete detail in the UPGRADING > file that is in the top level directory in the distribution. Also see > section 3 of the installation manual at > admin/www/mailman-install/node6.html or > admin/www/mailman-install.(pdf|ps|txt) in the distribition. > > > In this case, there are a few important errors in the 2.1.7 release > which are fixed by the patch at > <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1405790&group_id=103&atid=300103> > > This should be applied with > > patch -p0 < this_patch > > in the unpack directory before 'make install'. Or, you can wait for > 2.1.8 which should be available within the month and fixes these and a > few other issues. > ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
