"Tim Ferguson" <t...@ccs135.com> wrote: >Is there a preferred flavor of Linux that Mailman seems to work and >install the best with? I'm trying Ubuntu, but the apt-get feature is >getting hung up on trying to find the repositories and can't, so, until >I get that fixed I just thought I'd ask. > >Thanks for any ideas and suggestions,
Note that the Debian/Ubuntu packaging of Mailman has some patches that are undocumented. And there is one patch that removes a library that is sometimes needed. That is why I used the SourceForge source and built my own Mailman 2.1.11 package that I am running in production on Ubuntu. There are lots of postings in the list archives where people are running "foreign" versions of Mailman, and limited help from the Mailman developers on this list is available. In the case of Debian/Ubuntu, I could not determine what each of the patches did, so I do not know how much the changes therein would affect the support available on this list. I did look at three security patches for Mailman, and two of the three were exactly what was in the SourceForge Mailman; one differed. And I did not look at the code in detail to see if the one that differed had the same basic correction that the SourceForge patch had. It took me a while to figure out how to build a package, but now that I know how to do it, I can give instructions to anyone who wants them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277 9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601 Building 222, Room D209 Internet: bsfin...@anl.gov Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
