Hi,

I normally build mailman (./configure; make install) on a dev system then tar/rsync it to a production machine. I checked the UPGRADING notes in the 2.1.7 release and there is no mention of anything (i.e. withlist, fix_url, etc) that needs to be done when upgrading from 2.1.5 to 2.1.7. Are lists (and specifically everything in "--with-var-prefix") from a 2.1.5 install compatible with 2.1.7? If not, what post-install actions need to be taken to upgrade an existing system from 2.1.5 to 2.1.7?

Thanks, and Thank you MM Developers for this latest release.

-Jim P.

----- Original Message ---- From: Tokio Kikuchi <tkikuchi@is.kochi-u.ac.jp> To: python-announce@python.org; mailman-announce@python.org Cc: mailman-developers@python.org; mailman-users@python.org; info-gnu@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 8:02:23 AM Subject: [Mailman-Users] RELEASED Mailman 2.1.7

I'm pleased to announce the release of GNU Mailman 2.1.7. This is a significant release, which includes security enhancement fixes, a new language (ia: Interlingua) support, a couple of new features, and many bug fixes.

Mailman is free software for managing email mailing lists and e-newsletters.

This release enhances the fixes for CAN-2005-0202 and CVE-2005-3573 which were fixed in mailman release 2.1.6, and reduces the chance of list admin privilege abuse. Because of these and other fixes, it is highly recommended that all sites update to 2.1.7.

For more information, see:

http://mailman.sourceforge.net/

For links to download the Mailman 2.1.7 source tarball, see:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103

Best regards and a happy new year!

-- Tokio Kikuchi

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I'm having issues during the make install. Configured with:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pkgs/mailman-2.1.7 --with-urlhost=mailman-test.cs.utah.edu --with-mailhost=cs.utah.edu --with-cgi-gid=mailman --with-mail-gid=mailman

make generate no errors/warnings

But the install goes into an infinite loop:

Creating directory hierarchy /usr/local/pkgs/mailman-2.1.7/cgi-bin mkdir /usr/local/pkgs/mailman-2.1.7/cgi-bin Creating directory hierarchy /usr/local/pkgs/mailman-2.1.7/mail mkdir /usr/local/pkgs/mailman-2.1.7/mail /bin/sh: line 0: cd: bin: Not a directory make[1]: Entering directory /uusoc/facility/sys/src/mailman/SuSE-9.2/mailman-2.1.7' Creating architecture independent directories... chmod o-r /usr/local/pkgs/mailman-2.1.7/archives/private Creating architecture dependent directories... /bin/sh: line 0: cd: bin: Not a directory make[2]: Entering directory /uusoc/facility/sys/src/mailman/SuSE-9.2/mailman-2.1.7' Creating architecture independent directories... chmod o-r /usr/local/pkgs/mailman-2.1.7/archives/private Creating architecture dependent directories... /bin/sh: line 0: cd: bin: Not a directory

Todd