Hello, Thank you, Mark, Adam, and Andrew for your replies. More below.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:m...@msapiro.net] > Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 12:19 AM > To: Ivan Fetch; MailMan > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving / upgrading Mailman from Solaris to > Linux > > 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. What issues have you had with their patches? E.G> the way they have fixed a bug on their own? > >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. I will look into the EPEL python, it would be nice to have acces to something somewhat newer than what ships with RHEL. Although ... RHEL 6 is out now. :-) - Ivan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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
