[Mailman-Developers] Min requirements for running Mailman?

[John.Airey at rnib.org.uk]

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> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Min requirements for 
> running Mailman?
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> * Nigel Metheringham 
> 
> | I'd tend to take this as:-
> |       * Mailman is a bitch to package
> 
> Not really.  It's fairly well-behaved in my experience.  It's a
> semi-large web application with some requirements, but nothing
> unreasonable.
> 
> |       * 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 :-)
> 
> Mailman has been in Debian since June 1998 (1.0b4), so we've been
> working on it for a while as well.  I think our packages are of good
> quality (far from perfect, but making perfect packages is _a lot_ of
> work. ;)
> 
Just to throw my tuppence worth in...

I've used mailman since Red Hat 7.2. I found that the version that came with
Red Hat 9.0 wouldn't work for me (ie I couldn't upgrade to it) so I stuck
with the 7.2 version (2.0.13) till the end of Red Hat 9 support. 

We are now running the 2.1.5 version that comes with Fedora but running it
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). I did however have to recreate all the
lists by hand in an overnight shift (what fun that was...) a few days before
leaving the country (hence the rush). At that time I didn't know I could
export the configuration (Doh!).

Red Hat have taken some packages out of RHEL eg arpwatch and mysql-server
(although this is in the "extras" channel) even though these are in the
source RPM. Mailman is currently not included but might be being put back in
to RHEL 4.0. I would like to hope so, as I find 2.1.5 far superior to
2.0.13.

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