The esteemed Brad Knowles has said: > > on 1/27/09 9:07 AM, Tim Ferguson said: > > > 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. > > If you're installing from our source, then most any recent version of > Linux should work fine. If you're installing from someone else's binary > packages, then you are dependent on the person doing the packaging -- > they have to keep up with our releases, back-port patches, etc.... > > > On python.org, where we host all the official mailman-* mailing lists, > Debian works just fine. But we run the version from our own source, and > not the binary packaged version. > I have to put in another "plug" for building Mailman from sources vs. doing a prepackaged install built by somebody else. I have just built and installed Mailman 2.1.11 and 2.1.12rc1 on Solaris 10 following the installation guide at
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/index.html If you've got an appropriate Python installed and have a compiler on the build machine, actually configuring, building, and installing the Mailman application is the easiest part of the job. The remainder are very straightforward systems administration tasks to get the mailman account set up properly and get correct permissions on everything. We also built Mailman 2.1.9 on a Debian machine a couple of years ago. Another guy did the work and had problems because he did not follow the Installation Guide completely. I was asked to audit and correct things, which involved no more than correcting group name and permissions as outlined in the Installation Guide. I have always been an advocate for building from source rather than using prepackaged as the default choice for add-on programs. Only when I trust a pre-built package (as with the sendmail and bind in the Solaris distribution) do I use a prepackaged version. Hank ------------------------------------------------------ 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