[arch-dev-public] [arch-general] Mailman update

[Andreas Radke]

Am Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:16:46 +1000
schrieb Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>:

> On 25/07/10 21:40, Allan McRae wrote:
> > On 24/07/10 02:55, Dan Vratil wrote:
> >> I tried the latest version of mailman (2.1.13) as you suggested. I
> >> used the
> >> PKGBUILD from SVN trunk, but I modified it, so that it does not
> >> require /home/mailman and mailman user and group to exist during
> >> build and I modified
> >> the mailman.install file so that useradd does not
> >> create /home/mailman. I'm not sure if this ML allows attachments,
> >> so the source tarball is on
> >> http://pub.progdan.cz/mailman-2.1.13-1.src.tar.gz if any dev were
> >> interested.
> >>
> >> The mailman is working without problems, but making it work was
> >> not as simple
> >> as I thought at the beginning :) Our recent wiki page about
> >> mailman is absolutely useless. I would like to update it, put
> >> there a guide how to set up
> >> mailman (with postfix), but it's pointless until the package is
> >> updated.
> >
> >
> > I have looked at the PKGBUILD and quickly built it. Everything looks
> > good as far as I can tell. The install file still has the old
> > syntax to be removed.
> >
> > Can someone do the needed builds and upload this update to
> > [testing]?
> >
> 
> Bump.  Please someone build this and put it in [testing].
> 
> Allan
> 

Done. Packages are in testing. I hope the update will go smooth. Once
it is tested our overlord should take care to restart the daemon...

Maybe somebody knows how to create a user/group as regular user inside
a PKGBUILD.

Please test it.

-Andy