[Mailman-Users] Update from older versions (newbie will patch)

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 22:20, Mark Rauterkus wrote:

> I'm trying to go from 2.0.9 to more recent versions.
> 
> I get the file mailman-2.0.9-2.0.10-diff.txt
> I then changed its name to drop the .txt for no reason.
> 
> I put it into my:
>   /usr/local/mailman/
> 
> At TELNET:

You really should be using ssh, but that's another discussion...
 
> % patch -p0 <mailman-2.0.9-2.0.10-diff
> Hmm...  Looks like a unified diff to me...
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |Index: NEWS
> |===================================================================
> |RCS file: /cvsroot/mailman/mailman/NEWS,v
> |retrieving revision 1.25.2.13
> |retrieving revision 1.25.2.14
> |diff -u -r1.25.2.13 -r1.25.2.14
> |--- NEWS       3 Apr 2002 22:50:10 -0000       1.25.2.13
> |+++ NEWS       9 Apr 2002 20:57:40 -0000       1.25.2.14
> --------------------------
> File to patch:
> 
> - - -
> Throughout it asks me to point to File to patch: ???
> What goes here?
> 

Um, the patch file is for the mailman source code (which is probably not
in /usr/local/mailman).  The source code is wherever you originally
downloaded and un-tarred it to.  If you don't have the 2.0.9 source code
anymore, then you don't use the patch.  Instead download the complete
2.0.13 (or 2.1.1) source code and use that.

--Jeremy