On 04/21/2015 12:18 PM, Danil Smirnov wrote: > 2015-04-21 21:23 GMT+03:00 Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net>: >> But this raises the question, if you are installing Mailman from source, >> why do you still have artifacts from the distro's package still in your >> installation. > > Why you name them 'artefacts'? I consider them very convenient technology > working great for Mailman 2.1.18-1 also. I can stop and start Mailman service > with 'service' tool and I don't need to worry about crontab entries.
They are things that are in some sense left over from a prior install of a distro's Mailman package. Had you just installed Mailman from source without ever installing the package, you would not be aware of them. Thus, they are artifacts left over from the package. > Give me a reason why I wouldn't do this. If you know exactly what you are doing and how things that remain from the package interact with your source install/upgrade, that's fine, and if you like those specific things you continue to use, there's no reason not to. But those conditions don't apply to everyone and people sometimes get themselves in trouble when they knowingly or unknowingly mix things from a package with things from the source distribution that may not be compatible in the ways that they do things. For example, your packages /etc/init.d/mailman script copies (apparently) /opt/local/share/mailman/cron/crontab.in or maybe /(var|usr)/lib/mailman/cron/crontab.in to /etc/cron.d/mailman. If in the process of installing/upgrading your installation from the source distribution you had copied the source cron/crontab.in to whatever crontab.in the /etc/init.d/mailman script copies from, it would not work because the source cron/crontab.in is a 'user' crontab and doesn't have 'mailman' as the 6th field in the entries. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
