On 05/03/2015 05:15 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Mark Sapiro writes: > > > > Actually, AFAIK, the Red Hat (hence CentOS) Mailman package is the only > > one that does it right. > > I don't understand what you mean by "right".
I actually meant 'right' in a much more limited sense. Also, I had actually forgotten John Dennis' whole mm_cfg.py thing and it's 'exceptional' treatment in Red Hat. I agree with what you've said here. I only meant that for the most part Red Hat puts the files where they belong under FHS and teaches Mailman to look for them there. Debian also puts the files where they belong, including putting mm_cfg.py in /etc/mailman/ which I agree is the right place, but Mailman still thinks all the files are in /var/lib/mailman and those that aren't, which is a bunch, are symlinked from there including a symlink from /var/lib/mailman/Mailman to /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman and then a second one from /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py to /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py. While this all works, and it is arguably better than patching Mailman in ways that make it more difficult to upgrade from source should you want to, it just seems somehow unclean to me, and that's all I meant to say. Does it right was really not the correct characterization, particularly since I'm reminded of Red Hat's mm_cfg.py handling. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://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: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
