[Mailman-Users] Get newer version of Mailman for Debian 6?

[Terry Earley]

Barry,

> It took me a while to determine what to do,
> but after I had built and tested the package, I had no problems
> building packages for subsequent Mailman releases.  IIRC, the last
> Mailman for which I built a package was 2.1.14.  I do not know if
> any changes since then would require changes to the package-build
> process.  I have details on what I did, if anyone is interested.
>

Our Ubuntu server will need to take an upgrade from 2.1.14 to 2.1.18-1, so
your instructions on building Debian packages will be very helpful to us at
least. Thanks in advance.

Terry Earley
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On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Barry S. Finkel <bsfinkel at att.net> wrote:

> On 5/14/2014 2:40 PM, Sascha Rissel wrote:
>
>> Hello there,
>>
>> I am running a vServer on Debian6.
>> Via "apt-get install mailman" I installed and set up Mailman 2.1.13, which
>> is running fine with 5 mailing lists on my server.
>>
>> Motivated by all those discussions about Yahoo's DMARC on this list, I
>> wondered whether I can upgrade my Mailman installation to a newer version.
>>
>> I tried "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" but I did not receive a
>> newer version of Mailman.
>>
>> Unfortunately I don't consider myself as good enough in Linux usage, to be
>> able to build Mailman binaries from scratch on my own. Indeed I tried, but
>> already upon executing "configure" (Step 3 in Mailman's installation
>> guide<http://list.org/mailman-install/node7.html>)
>> I got a python warning
>>
>>> Distutils is not available or is incomplete
>>>
>> which seems to tell me I should install another Python environment.
>>
>> So I came to the point when I decided that compiling Mailman on my own is
>> too complicated for me, because in the end I definitely want a bug-free
>> installation of Mailman.
>>
>> Is there maybe an easier way to get a more recent version of Mailman for
>> my
>> server?
>>
>> In advance, thanks for your help!
>> Sascha.
>>
>
> When I was running a Mailman server on an Ubuntu box, I was forced to
> install via a package.  But I did some research on the Debian/Ubuntu
> package to see what was in it.  There were many patches that were
> undocumented, and there was one patch that deleted a library that,
> in some cases, is required.  So, I decided to build my own package
> from the SourceForge source.  That way, I would know EXACTLY what
> the source was, and I could get support from this discussion list.
>
> It took me a while to determine what to do,
> but after I had built and tested the package, I had no problems
> building packages for subsequent Mailman releases.  IIRC, the last
> Mailman for which I built a package was 2.1.14.  I do not know if
> any changes since then would require changes to the package-build
> process.  I have details on what I did, if anyone is interested.
>
> --Barry Finkel
>
>
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