Ivan Fetch wrote: > >We are planning to move our Mailman installation from Solaris to Linux, and >upgrade in the process. I'd love to hear from anyone who has run production >Mailman on Linux. > >What experiences have list members had with RedHat vs. Ubuntu Mailman >packages, vs. compiling Mailman from source?
I run Mailman installed from source on CentOS 5 for my production lists. The default Python on this server is the CentOS/RedHat 2.4.3-27.el5 (you need both python and python-devel to install Mailman from source). I also have Python 2.6.5 on this server installed from source. I have installed and run Mailman in production at various times with both Python versions. Currently I'm running Mailman installed with Python 2.6.5. My lists are small to moderate size (<500 members) and low to moderate traffic (zero to two or three dozen posts per list daily). Everything works fine (I fix the Mailman bugs when I find them ;) >At this point, even though I prefer to use packages when possible, I am >leaning toward compiling Mailman from source because of: >1. Red Hat packages are typically more ancient >2. Ubuntu packages seem to include non-standard patches to Mailman (still >sorting this out) I've never used the Debian/Ubuntu package, but I've had issues with some of their patches. I've fixed the significant problems addressed by the Debian patches, at least those I understand, upstream in 2.1.13 and 2.1.14. >Additionally, has anyone run into problems with Python packages provided by >Red Hat and Ubuntu? The RedHat Python 2.4.3 package works for me, but it is old. There are python26 packages in the epel repository, but I haven't used them. -- 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://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
