[Mailman-Developers] problem installing Mailman 3.0 beta1 - no var directory created during install

[David]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:57 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>wrote:

>
> The short answer is "Anywhere, as long as the relative positions of
> components are in the same place".  Basically, just use "python
> setup.py install --prefix=$YOUR_PREFERENCE".
>

I installed it but I didn't get a var directory at all. (On the chance that
it is created only after starting Mailman the first time, I tried to start
it but that didn't work either.) The last line of the installation output
read:
error: None

# ls /opt/mailman3/
bin  lib

Here's what I did:

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/opt/mailman3/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
/usr/bin/python setup.py install --prefix=/opt/mailman3

In src/mailman/config/schema.cfg I have:
# Which paths.* file system layout to use.
layout: dev

In src/mailman/config/mailman.cfg I have:
[paths.dev]
var_dir: var

[paths.fhs]
bin_dir: /sbin
var_dir: /var/lib/mailman
[snip]

# bin/mailman info
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bin/mailman", line 5, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2707, in
<module>
    working_set.require(__requires__)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 686, in
require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 584, in
resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: restish


root at localhost:/opt/mailman3# bin/mailman start
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bin/mailman", line 5, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2707, in
<module>
    working_set.require(__requires__)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 686, in
require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 584, in
resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: restish

mailman-3.0.0b1-source# ls
bin           copybump.py   dist                        eggs
setup.cfg
bootstrap.py  COPYING       distribute-0.6.8-py2.7.egg  MANIFEST.in
setup.py
build         cron          distribute-0.6.8.tar.gz     parts        src
buildout.cfg  data          distribute_setup.py         PKG-INFO
template.py
conf.py       develop-eggs  distribute_setup.pyc        README.rst   var