[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have installed Mailman 2.1.5 on a Fedora core 3 box. I installed from >RPM. Tha last version for FC3 is 2.1.5, but I'd like to upgrade to 2.1.7. >Is there an easy way to do this? Anyone who have done this successfully?
John Dennis from Red Hat often has things to say about Red Hat issues, but he doesn't seem to be active on the list right now. First, I'd wait for 2.1.8. It will be out soon and has several bug fixes. Second, upgrading from source is easy. It's just a matter of getting the configure options right and running 'configure' with those options and 'make install'. You want to stop Mailman and probably your MTA and web server during 'make install' - read the UPGRADING document in the distribution. Also, you can look at the installation manual in the distribution in the admin/www/ directory or on line at <http://www.list.org/mailman-install/index.html>. For an upgrade, you're mostly concerned with section 3, as the rest of the steps are already done. The tricky part is Red Hat in an effort to be standards compliant has split things up into directories in ways that I *think* involve more than can be handled with just the --prefix, --exec-prefix and --with-var-prefix options. The good news, is I *think* you can probably set these three appropriately so that things will work. There is at least one other tricky thing in that I think Red Hat has patched mailmanctl to support a 'status' option that one of their scripts uses. See <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-May/044898.html> and <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1208685&group_id=103&atid=300103>. You will probably want to run configure and then look at the configured Defaults.py and diff it with the 2.1.5 installed one to get an idea if any configure options need to be changed. You can run configure any number of times without affecting your 2.1.5 installation which will only be changed when you finally run 'make install'. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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
