[Mailman-Developers] Mailman install from CVS bug

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "JCRA" == Juan Carlos Rey Anaya <jcrey@uma.es> writes:

    JCRA> I have been experiencing a bug when I have tried to install
    JCRA> mailman from CVS:

Be sure you do a "cvs update -P -d" to create any new directories that
have shown up since your last cvs update!

I just tried a fresh update, configure, and install and it works for
me, modulo the following:

    VS> I am managing the Hungarian translation.
    VS> I have downloaded the current CVS and I found some problems:

Cool.  I've currently got Hungarian templates checked into CVS but not
a message catalog.  The templates may be out of date too, and I'd love
to get updates for both (actually for any and all languages).

    VS> Creating language directory
    VS> /home/mailman/messages/rot/LC_MESSAGES mkdir
    VS> /home/mailman/messages/rot mkdir
    VS> /home/mailman/messages/rot/LC_MESSAGES /usr/bin/install:
    VS> rot/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po: No such file or directory
    VS> /usr/bin/install: rot/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.mo: No such file or
    VS> directory make[1]: *** [doinstall] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving
    VS> directory `/root/mailman/messages' make: *** [doinstall] Error
    VS> 2

I don't get that, so the "cvs up -P -d" suggestion above should fix
that.  But now that we've got the start of some real languages, I
think I'll delete the toy "rot" translations.

    VS> After the installation every 4 minutes through cron, and every
    VS> commandline programs get the user this message:

    | root@tatooin mailman]# bin/check_perms
    | Traceback (most recent call last):
    | File "bin/check_perms", line 328, in ?
    |      checkmta()
    | File "bin/check_perms", line 265, in checkmta
    |     __import__(modname)
    | ImportError: No module named Sendmail

    VS> I am using Sendmail with Mandrake 8.

This is actually caused by the default value for the MTA variable in
Defaults.py.in.  I haven't created a Mailman/MTA/Sendmail.py module
yet.  I'll work on fixing that up.

    VS> And finally it the attachment is the notifing error message
    VS> for the http://servername/mailman/listinfo/

You still need to download and install mimelib 0.3 separately to use
CVS.  See http://sf.net/projects/mimelib for details.

-Barry