On 05/01/2014 08:21 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:34:51 -0700 Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> wrote:
>>
>> Did you totally remove the Centos package or try to 'upgrade' it. The
>> latter is not at all straightforward. See the FAQ at
>> <http://wiki.list.org/x/KYCB>.
> 
> That page relates to upgrading from 2.1.5-20 or earlier.  I was upgrading 
> from 
> 2.1.9, so that does not apply (?).


That FAQ and the mailman-developers post linked from it explain changed
in the RedHat/CentOS package beginning with 2.1.15 that render it
impossible to do a straightforward configure/install of a GNU Mailman
source distribution on top of an existing RedHat/CentOS package.


> Ok, I did an explict stop of mailman, removed the old rpm (rpm -e) and then a
> fresh install of the new version, started mailman, and after some minor config
> tweaks, it seems to be working.


Good.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
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