[Mailman-Users] upgrade: 2.0.13 to 2.1, searchable archives?

[Phydeaux]

At 11:43 PM 1/3/2003 +0000, Richard Barrett wrote:
>At 21:03 03/01/2003, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>>Question:  How to I get searchable archives?  Like
>>
>>http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
>>
>>for my own mailing-list archives?  How come this doesn't come as
>>a part of Mailman?
>
>The  www.mail-archive.com  site use the htdig search engine which is available from http://htdig.org and is also included in several Linux distributions. However, that site uses the MHonArc archiving software rather than MM's builtin Pipermail archiver.
>
>One approach to integrating builtin-Pipermail-archiver constructed MM archives with htdig is to apply the following patches in the order given to a MM 2.1 build directory:
>
>http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=661138&group_id=103&atid=300103
>http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=444879&group_id=103&atid=300103
>http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=444884&group_id=103&atid=300103

My worry about doing this is what happens when I want to upgrade MM
afterward? If I have a non-standard installation what kind of nightmare am
I setting myself up for down the road?

reb