On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 10:00 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
At 7:05 PM -0700 2004-08-30, Adam Boettiger wrote: Well, if you check the archives and the FAQ, in the past Red Hat and Red Hat derived distributions have had certain known problems with the RPMs that they have made available, but I don't know about the current RPMs. Given their past history, my view is that you might want to try to avoid them if you can.
I'd tend to take this as:- * Mailman is a bitch to package * RH have packaged it for a while * RH found a good few of the gotchas in packaging Mailman * RH have subsequently learnt from their mistakes and recently have produced good packages. * Other distros may do better, or may yet have to learn from their mistakes :-)
Just for the record, the errata FC1 packages, and all the FC2 packages worked fine for me. However I don't run Mailman on production on FC* (due to the machine provided by Cambridge Uni for exim.org running FreeBSD).
Myself, I prefer FreeBSD, but then I know that OS choice is a very personal matter.
Heh - transferring to FreeBSD has been very much a learning experience. Best to ask me in a year what I think of it :-)
Nigel.
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