[Mailman-Users] How can I update 2.1.3 --> 2.1.5?

[Brad Knowles]

At 6:45 PM +0100 2004/06/01, Ian A B Eiloart wrote:

>  Ah, I see, so I upgrade by reinstalling. But that isn't clear from the
>  documentation, because "as easy as" doesn't mean "is achieved by". So
>  there's me thinking, "OK, so its easy, but how do I do it?".

	Fair enough.  We'll have to ask Barry to update the documentation 
to be more precise.

>  1. The file says "BE SURE TO TURN OFF MAILMAN AS DESCRIBED ABOVE
>     BEFORE YOU UPGRADE." - but that isn't described above. The closest I
>  could see was a recommendation to switch off my MTA. I want to avoid that
>  if the process is going to take more than a minute, so I'm hoping I can
>  just switch off mailmanctl, but I'm using EXIM, and I think it will
>  continue to queue messages...with the wrong queue format?

	You can't really just turn off Mailman itself.  You have to turn 
off the MTA and the webserver.

>  2. The file refers to
>  <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2000-September/006826.html>.
>  AFAICT that message is the wrong one. It doesn't relate to upgrading, and
>  isn't from the person referenced, and its four years old.

	Documentation bug.  Barry?


	Was there anything else?

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