On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 14:14 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 11:43 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > See <http://wiki.list.org/x/KYCB> and the Mailman-Developers post linked > > therefrom. It's probably out of date and does not directly address the > > issue of making this information available as part of the 3rd party > > package, but it is probably still useful to someone trying to upgrade > > RedHat Mailman from source. > > Yes, this article is very informative, and at present may be the best > thing available for an old-package to new-source upgrade. And yes, it > does not address the issue of making this information available as a > default part of the 3rd party package.
Adding this feature would involve only about 6 lines of code :) in configure.in: --- configure.in.orig 2012-10-29 14:37:31.000000000 -0500 +++ configure.in 2012-10-29 14:59:13.000000000 -0500 @@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ AC_REVISION($Revision: 8122 $) AC_PREREQ(2.0) AC_INIT(src/common.h) - +CONFIGURE_CLI="$0 $@" +AC_SUBST(CONFIGURE_CLI) # /usr/local/mailman is the default installation directory AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT(/usr/local/mailman) @@ -683,6 +684,7 @@ contrib/qmail-to-mailman.py \ contrib/courier-to-mailman.py \ contrib/rotatelogs.py \ +contrib/mm-config \ cron/bumpdigests \ cron/checkdbs \ cron/cull_bad_shunt \ And in the contrib directory, a short script, mm-config, to display this information: #!/usr/bin/python print """Mailman was built with the following configuration invocation: %s""" % ("@CONFIGURE_CLI@",) This properly belongs on the mailman-developers list, so please excuse my posting it on the thread here, but I though the discussion might be useful. I also posted it to the developers list. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Real programmers use butterflies" FMP Computer Services | 512-259-1190 | - xkcd http://www.fmp.com | ------------------------------------------------------ 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