On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 23:53 +0000, Kalbfleisch, Gary wrote: > I am running 2.1.9 because that is the latest version available from > Redhat as a package.
It's relatively simple to install Mailman from the source package, but one thing that would help a great deal with this would be default inclusion in the built package of a standard text or script that would contain, or issue, the arguments provided to configure during the build process. There are several critical parameters including the prefix, the var-prefix and of course the mail-gid which ought to be readily available for this purpose. If you've already built Mailman from source, this information is of course available in the config.log, but for people installing Mailman from an outdated package from a distribution, and wanting to catch up with the latest improvements or security fixes, having this information available as part of the distributed end product would be a big help. This is already done for many large and complex packages, would be a big help in making the transition from a pre-built Mailman package to a source-based update. Maybe this information is already available. I only spent about 5 minutes looking for it outside of the source tree and couldn't find it. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Behold! Our way lies through a FMP Computer Services | dark wood whence in which 512-259-1190 | weirdness may wallow!” http://www.fmp.com | --Beauregard ------------------------------------------------------ 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