[Mailman-Developers] installing 2.1b1 on top of 2.0.8

[Ron Jarrell]

At 12:17 PM 3/18/02 -0500, you wrote:

>Has anyone installed 2.1b1 on top of 2.0.8? I'm tempted to do so and I
>would appreciate any first hand experience.
>
>Is this recommended or is it prefered that we install 2.1b1 in another
>location and than move the 2.0.8 lists to the 2.1b1 location?

It ought to work just fine.  I haven't gone and done my prod machine
(this week) but my test machine was getting a never ending stream of
"Oh look - 6 more commits came in from 'Commit Happy Barry' :-) while
I was doing the install for the last 14." and if it compiled at all, it installed
cleanly...

Do read the docs carefully - a lot of things have changed; before putting the
service back in production you'll need to create the site mailing list, potentially
regenerate all your email aliases (there's a program to do so if you aren't
using an auto-routing mailer), and change your crontab, just off the top of my
head.  Oh yea, and go over mm_cfg with a fine tooth comb, cause a lot of
stuff changed in there and in Defaults.   You'll also need, although not 
necessarily immediately, an appropriate script to start the persistent
qrunners (not out of cron anymore), and if you've been customizing list
pages, you'll need some serious repair work there.