Re: [Mailman-Users] How to move a list from 2.1.2

2006-10-31 Thread Dan Young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl Zwanzig writes: I mean, how many people that install from RPMs even know that there might be a README file to read, let along to and find it? This is something that has peeved me for a decade. Installers for commercial software usually offer you the README

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to move a list from 2.1.2

2006-10-30 Thread Anders Norrbring
Brad Knowles skrev: At 4:05 PM +0100 10/29/06, Anders Norrbring wrote: I have a bunch of lists that resides on an old 2.1.2 installation. I want to move these to a newer machine with Mailman v2.1.7. Keep in mind that 2.1.7 has been superceded by 2.1.8 and now 2.1.9. I believe that there

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to move a list from 2.1.2

2006-10-30 Thread Jon Forrest
Anders Norrbring wrote: Yeah.. I'll do a RPM build for SUSE on the latest version as soon as I can find the time. The thing I was a bit concerned about was the move from one machine to the other. Seemed to work fine though.. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but building from source can sometimes be

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to move a list from 2.1.2

2006-10-30 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Jon Forrest wrote: Maybe I'm old fashioned, but building from source can sometimes be a good way to go here. It's not very hard, and you learn more about the package you're building. This can help a lot of something goes wrong because then you don't see the

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to move a list from 2.1.2

2006-10-30 Thread Anders Norrbring
Jon Forrest skrev: Anders Norrbring wrote: Yeah.. I'll do a RPM build for SUSE on the latest version as soon as I can find the time. The thing I was a bit concerned about was the move from one machine to the other. Seemed to work fine though.. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but building from

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to move a list from 2.1.2

2006-10-30 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:56 AM -0800 10/30/06, Carl Zwanzig wrote: I suppose that I'm also rather 'old-fashioned in that my preferred installation is from source, followed by using bsd ports. Of course, I prefer installing from source, too. Especially when it comes to things like Mailman. The irony here is

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to move a list from 2.1.2

2006-10-30 Thread stephen
Carl Zwanzig writes: I suppose that I'm also rather 'old-fashioned in that my preferred installation is from source, When was the last time you installed a BIOS from source?wink At some level everybody has to trust their system from that level on down, until it proves itself buggy. I

[Mailman-Users] How to move a list from 2.1.2

2006-10-29 Thread Anders Norrbring
I have a bunch of lists that resides on an old 2.1.2 installation.. I want to move these to a newer machine with Mailman v2.1.7. I'd like to move both lists and archives. On the mailman web site, a script called move_list is mentioned, but that script doesn't exist on any of my systems...

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to move a list from 2.1.2

2006-10-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
Anders Norrbring wrote: I have a bunch of lists that resides on an old 2.1.2 installation.. I want to move these to a newer machine with Mailman v2.1.7. I'd like to move both lists and archives. On the mailman web site, a script called move_list is mentioned, but that script doesn't exist on

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to move a list from 2.1.2

2006-10-29 Thread Anders Norrbring
Thanks Mark, A very easy to go by description! I was thinking in these lines, but wanted to check first. Again, thanks. Anders. Mark Sapiro skrev: Anders Norrbring wrote: I have a bunch of lists that resides on an old 2.1.2 installation.. I want to move these to a newer machine with

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to move a list from 2.1.2

2006-10-29 Thread Brad Knowles
At 4:05 PM +0100 10/29/06, Anders Norrbring wrote: I have a bunch of lists that resides on an old 2.1.2 installation. I want to move these to a newer machine with Mailman v2.1.7. Keep in mind that 2.1.7 has been superceded by 2.1.8 and now 2.1.9. I believe that there may be some serious