[Mailman-Users] Re: mailman v2.x

2020-09-16 Thread Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users
On Thu, 2020-09-17 at 02:34 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > You're right. If we're going to reopen the Mailman 2 branch to new > features, there should be a much larger body. So where is it? Mark > and I are not special. We're merely here every day, we have acquired > a lot of knowledge

[Mailman-Users] Re: Manual Update on Centos 7 (RH)

2020-09-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
I have created a work in progress FAQ at . This contains an updated patch that applies cleanly to the head of the lp:mailman branch and also patches configure so the `autoconf` step is not required. It also contains a brief summary of steps to upgrade. If you try

[Mailman-Users] Re: Manual Update on Centos 7 (RH)

2020-09-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 9/16/20 12:11 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 9/16/20 11:10 AM, Dennis Putnam wrote: >> Hi Mark, >> >> On to the next layer of the onion. After the install I get this: >> >> #./check_perms -f >> WARNING: directory does not exist: @PID_DIR@ >> WARNING: directory does not exist: @CONFIG_DIR@ >> WARNIN

[Mailman-Users] Re: Manual Update on Centos 7 (RH)

2020-09-16 Thread Dmitri Maziuk
On 9/16/2020 2:34 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 9/16/20 12:11 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: configure should have replaced the things @PID_DIR@, @CONFIG_DIR@, @LOCK_DIR@, @QUEUE_DIR@ and @LOG_DIR@ with actual paths. I think you need to provide options like --with-pid-dir=/var/run/mailman/ -- with-config-

[Mailman-Users] Re: Manual Update on Centos 7 (RH)

2020-09-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 9/16/20 12:11 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > configure should have replaced the things @PID_DIR@, @CONFIG_DIR@, > @LOCK_DIR@, @QUEUE_DIR@ and @LOG_DIR@ with actual paths. > > I think you need to provide options like > --with-pid-dir=/var/run/mailman/ -- with-config-dir=/etc/mailman > --with-lock-d

[Mailman-Users] Re: Manual Update on Centos 7 (RH)

2020-09-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 9/16/20 11:10 AM, Dennis Putnam wrote: > Hi Mark, > > On to the next layer of the onion. After the install I get this: > > #./check_perms -f > WARNING: directory does not exist: @PID_DIR@ > WARNING: directory does not exist: @CONFIG_DIR@ > WARNING: directory does not exist: @LOCK_DIR@ > WARNIN

[Mailman-Users] Re: Manual Update on Centos 7 (RH)

2020-09-16 Thread Dennis Putnam
Hi Mark, On to the next layer of the onion. After the install I get this: #./check_perms -f WARNING: directory does not exist: @PID_DIR@ WARNING: directory does not exist: @CONFIG_DIR@ WARNING: directory does not exist: @LOCK_DIR@ WARNING: directory does not exist: @QUEUE_DIR@ WARNING: directory

[Mailman-Users] Re: mailman v2.x

2020-09-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users writes: > Wait, so you do want to continue to support mm2 users, but you don't > want to support them in any fashion if someone else other than you and > Mark manages just the new features? That's right. Currently Mark and I have a tolerable balance between the

[Mailman-Users] Re: mailman v2.x

2020-09-16 Thread Jonathan M
> On 16 Sep 2020, at 07:07, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > I think that will be pretty challenging actually. At least, it was when I > did it years ago. And unless you’re *really* careful to avoid the temptation > to “fix" things along the way, you’ll probably end up with something not too > far a