At 8:20 AM -0500 11/18/06, Alan McConnell wrote: > Now here is an "ignoramus" question, from one who knoweth not Python: > If mailman is "powered by Python", why is not an upgrade from mailman > 2.1.5 to, say, 2.1.9, accomplished by simply grabbin the new python > scripts(hey, they are simply text files, right?) and dropping them > into place? (of course the data -- the database of list members -- > has to be backed up appropriately and restored, perhaps with new > fields added). Yes, I know this is a dumb question<g>; but I hope > for an intelligent answer, letting me, and the Patriot Support staff, > know exactly what is involved in a real, non-Debian dependent upgrade.
The Debian guys have moved stuff around. You can't just drop the 2.1.9 code onto a Debian machine and expect it to work properly -- it won't be able to find any of the files from the Debian-hacked version of 2.1.5 that was previously installed. When you take the current tarball and do a "make install" on that, it will put all the various files in the Mailman-standard locations, which are most definitely not the same as the Debian-standard locations for those kinds of things. You could copy the respective list configuration and list archive files from the Debian-standard location to the Mailman-standard location, and if you do it right then you should be able to get your system upgraded from 2.1.5 to 2.1.9. But this isn't just a simple drop-in replacement. What really needs to happen is the Debian guys need to get 2.1.9 and "Debian-ize" that codebase, and then ship that out to all their customers. Problem is, the Debian project is well-known for being multiple years behind the current state-of-whatever, so $DEITY only knows when you might ever see this kind of update -- Maybe about the same time we're shipping Mailman3. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trend Micro has announced that they will cancel the stop.mail-abuse.org mail forwarding service as of 15 November 2006. If you have an old e-mail account for me at this domain, please make sure you correct that with the current address. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
