[Mailman-Developers] Relocating a list

[Nigel Metheringham]

I didn't get to answering this anywhere near as quickly as Brad
responded to my queryy :-(

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 09:31, Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 8:46 AM +0100 2004-07-15, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> >  In one transition we intend to:-
	[change everything!]

> 	Out of curiosity, what version of Mailman are you running now, 
> and will you be upgrading to 2.1.5?

We currently run 2.0.13 with a few relatively minor modifications
(archive html mods for indexing and MIME attachment blocking).  We will
be going to 2.1.5 (I see the FreeBSD ports tree is older than that so I
guess I will install from source distribution instead).

> >  The main thing I was wondering about is whether the python saved files
> >  (ie the list db file etc) will transfer OK, or whether they have
> >  machine/os/python-version dependencies that will preclude doing things
> >  this way?
> 
> 	I would be concerned about the python structures surviving such a 
> big transition intact.  I'd want to have a dump of the list 
> configuration in a textual form, which could then be re-imported on 
> the other side.

This doesn't have to be done in one huge lump, so I can take stuff
across, attempt to take it into the new system and see what happens. 
Obviously if someone has hard data on how things are likely to break it
makes it easier to to take a more direct path to the final solution :-)

	Nigel.
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[ Nigel Metheringham           Nigel.Metheringham at InTechnology.co.uk ]
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