[Mailman-Users] mailman-2.1-1.i386.rpm

[Jon Carnes]

What you don't know (because you've never done it before) is that
installing via the Source is actually easier with Mailman than
installing via the RPM.

Installing via the RPM is buggy and only works if no default has been
touched - plus you still need to do all the work that is associated with
installing via source (installing the crontabs, etc).

It takes me less than 10 minutes to install Mailman via source on a Red
Hat system.

Jon Carnes

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 10:27, Parker, David K wrote:
> Apparently the RPM was set expect Postfix MTA to run as mail. I'm guessing
> the RedHat standard is to run MTA as nobody. I do appreciate the efforts of
> the person who put the rpm out. I've got the list back up on another RedHat
> 7.x box with Redhat distro Mailman RPM 2.0x. I'm thinking I'll wait until an
> official RPM for the RedHat distro is available prior to upgrading. As much
> as I love working with Linux, I have too many other time demands to get too
> buried in installing custom from source.
> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 
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> Parker, David K wrote:
> > I'm almost at a point where I've either got to scrap mailman 
> > completely and revert to an earlier rpm or install clean from source. 
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> If you're banging your head against the wall, uninstall the rpm and install
> mailman from source (carefully reading the README, INSTALL, and UPGRADING
> files).
> 
> Mailman is extremely easy to install from source, yet somewhat difficult to
> package properly as an rpm that will work with different MTA's out of the
> box (due to the security constraints of the few mailman binaries).
> 
> If you insist on having an rpm, you should at the very least pull down the
> source rpm from your distro and then look at tweaking it as necessary for
> your MTA.  Unless you really like messing around with spec files and
> building rpms, I'd just build from source.
> 
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