Mailing list software Update [Update]

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Sun Oct 19 20:35:50 EDT 2003


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On 19 Oct 2003 20:14:21 -0400
Bruce Dawson <jbd at codemeta.com> wrote:

> Errr. I've run into a hitch. The recent version of Mailman requires a
> later version of python - but there's a lot of other utilities that
> require the current version. (If the python libraries were upward
> compatible, I'd risk upgrading, but they don't appear to be).
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 11:55, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> > I will be attempting to upgrade the mailing list software on the
> > server this weekend, and possibly early next week. Be prepared for
> > some glitches. And please let the list know if you notice any subtle
> > problems.
> > 
> > BTW: Just from reading the mailman web site, it looks like going
> > from 2.0.13 (which we are currently running) to 2.1-8 (the latest
> > source RPM for the 2.1 series of Mailman I can find) will be a bit
> > rocky.
> > 
> > And from experiences upgrading at another site, I can expect the
> > archives to be offline for a while. (But there we upgraded the whole
> > OS, not just mailman, so this experience will be different).
> > 
> > If anyone has any suggestions on doing this, please let me know!
While I ran into the same problem, you can install the new version of
Python as a secondary version (we installed it as python2). I just have
not bitten the bullet and tried to install the new version of mailman
with that version of Python.


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