[Mailman-Users] Searchable Archives

[Mark Sapiro]

Moss, Patricia wrote:

>I am running mailman version 2.1.5-33 on a RedHat Linux ES4.0 server.
>
>I would like to make my archives searchable.  
>
>I found some information in the Mailman FAQ Wizard that pointed me to a
>patch.
>
>Note:
>http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?query=htdig&querytype=simple&ca
>sefold=yes&req=search (Patch number: htdig-2.1.5-0.1.patch.gz )
>
>I downloaded the patch, but couldn't find any doc on how to apply this
>patch to an already existing installation. 


Note that the patch 'indexing-2.1.5-0.1.patch.gz'
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=444879&group_id=103&atid=300103>
is a prerequisite to this patch.


>My Mailman install was done via an RPM, so I do not have a "build"
>directory.  
>
>Is there another way to apply this patch or are there other means by
>which to make my archives searchable?  Thanks.


You could go through the patch and figure out the end results and apply
them directly to your installation, but this would involve things like
compiling a new wrapper and figuring out the options for that, ...

It would be simpler to get the source distribution and patch it and
install that over your existing installation.

The FAQ article you point to (1.11) has a link to FAQ 4.8 which
discusses using Namazu to search the archives. Be sure to also read
the list post linked from that article.

There are also links in article 1.11 to other search tools, but there
are no specific instructions for using these with Mailman.

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