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.
and Hank van Cleef <vancl...@lostwells.net> replied: >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. One of the requirements from my management when I installed Mailman on Ubuntu was that all installs had to be done via packages. That is why I built the Mailman 2.1.9 and 2.1.11 packages. For other software - for example, Postfix, Apache2, Python - I could live with the Ubuntu-supplied packages. Until there is a major problem with something in the package that it takes the Ubuntu support staff too long to fix (which may never happen). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
