[Mailman-Users] migration from mailman 2.1.5 and fc2 to 2.1.9 and Centos

[Dragon]

Ted Targosz sent the message below at 23:44 11/13/2006:
>Seems like i'm not the only one wanting to migrate from 2.1.5... but I
>made the mistake of deploying fedora core 2 with mailman 2.1.5 (RPM) as
>a production system...  now i can see i need to migrate to Centos 4 for
>longer term stability.
>
>I recall reading somewhere that someone did this and they wound up
>breaking mailman , but they didn't care because mailman wasn't being
>used much..   however, in my case, mailman is the "sole" use of this
>server.
>
>Has anyone had any experiences moving from FC2 to Centos 4.x and running
>mailman that they'd like to share?
>
>anything i need to watch out for?
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My personal opinion...

Install mailman from source and forget any packages. The packages are 
generally not up to the latest release and installing from source is 
really quite easy.



Dragon

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