At 7:16 PM +0200 2004/06/01, Brad Knowles wrote:
What about this is not clear? You turn off the MTA and the web server, and then you follow the instructions for installing the software. That's about it.
Further clarification -- a bit further down that same file, it says:
UPGRADING FROM 2.1.4 to 2.1.5
In Mailman 2.1.5, some significant changes have been made to the file formats for qfiles and the pendings database. All care has been taken to make sure the upgrades happen automatically and smoothly, but you should double check and, for the ultra-paranoid, make backups of your Mailman site before you upgrade. BE SURE TO TURN OFF MAILMAN AS DESCRIBED ABOVE BEFORE YOU UPGRADE.
Specifically, in MM2.1.4 every message in the queues were represented by two files, a .msg or .pck file containing the email message, and a .db file containing metadata about the message. In MM2.1.5 this has been made more efficient by using only one file (with a .pck extension) for both the message and metadata. This should make MM2.1.5 half as hostile to the file system.
The bin/upgrade script, which is run automatically when you upgrade, should convert all the old style qfiles to the new style qfiles. Note that this could take a long time if you have a lot of files in your qfiles subdirectories. Pay particular attention to files you might have in qfiles/shunt; these will get upgraded too, although files in qfiles/bad will not.
Actually, bin/upgrade doesn't exist. But bin/update does. And doing a "make install" will also run bin/update as well. So, following the directions, "./configure; make install" should be what you need to do.
Of course, you'll need to watch the options you pass to "configure", and replicate the ones you had previously used.
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