Re: [Mailman-Users] Jump from Python 2.4 to 2.7...

2015-03-02 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Laura Creighton writes: > Apologies, apologies ... > (from somebody who only learned that about CentOS only _after_ she thought > thatinstalling a more modern Python system-wide would be in everybody's > interest) Yes, indeed. "Don't touch /usr/bin/python" is an ancient Red Hat and Centos b

Re: [Mailman-Users] Jump from Python 2.4 to 2.7...

2015-03-02 Thread Laura Creighton
Aha, I now see that you know not to replace your system Python. Sorry for the note in haste, but if you were about to do such a thing I needed to tell you NO! DON'T DO THAT! in a hurry. Apologies, apologies ... (from somebody who only learned that about CentOS only _after_ she thought thatinstal

Re: [Mailman-Users] Jump from Python 2.4 to 2.7...

2015-03-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 03/02/2015 01:56 PM, Laura Creighton wrote: > > I have been away. I get to this discussion late, and so sorry if > this has been mentioned, but > > YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT CHANGE YOUR CENTOS SYSTEM PYTHON 2.4.3 OR YOU > WILL BREAK YOUR WHOLE PACKAGING SYSTEM! Quite true. I found this out th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Jump from Python 2.4 to 2.7...

2015-03-02 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Mon, 02 Mar 2015 15:15:01 -0500, [email protected] writes: >Mark Sapiro recently posted, in part... > >> Are you installing Mailman 2.1.19 on the Red Hat system or >> using whatever Red Hat rpm package that's available, and if the >> latter, what is that? And, what Mailman will yo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Jump from Python 2.4 to 2.7...

2015-03-02 Thread Bill . Costa
Mark Sapiro recently posted, in part... Are you installing Mailman 2.1.19 on the Red Hat system or using whatever Red Hat rpm package that's available, and if the latter, what is that? And, what Mailman will you be using on the RHEL 7 system? Well my original plan was to install the latest an

Re: [Mailman-Users] Jump from Python 2.4 to 2.7...

2015-03-02 Thread Chris Nulk
On 3/2/2015 9:53 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 03/02/2015 08:22 AM, [email protected] wrote: My question is, are there any quirks or gotchas that I should be aware of in going from the old RHEL/Python platform to the new one? Is there anything I can do on the old system now that will make migratio

Re: [Mailman-Users] Jump from Python 2.4 to 2.7...

2015-03-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 03/02/2015 08:22 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > My question is, are there any quirks or gotchas that I should be > aware of in going from the old RHEL/Python platform to the new > one? Is there anything I can do on the old system now that will > make migration to the new platform easier? F

Re: [Mailman-Users] Jump from Python 2.4 to 2.7...

2015-03-02 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
I'm going to be doing a new Mailman installation on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system 5.11 with Python 2.4.3. The goal is to convert existing ListProc mailing lists to Mailman without having to change the addresses for the lists. I've done a similar conversion in the past many years ago

[Mailman-Users] Jump from Python 2.4 to 2.7...

2015-03-02 Thread Bill . Costa
I'm going to be doing a new Mailman installation on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system 5.11 with Python 2.4.3. The goal is to convert existing ListProc mailing lists to Mailman without having to change the addresses for the lists. I've done a similar conversion in the past many years ago a