[arch-general] Mailman update

[Dan Vratil]

On Thursday 22 July 2010 00:21:24 Dan McGee wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 21, 2010, Ananda Samaddar <ananda at samaddar.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:38:37 +0200
> > 
> > Dan Vratil <vratil at progdansoft.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> please, could someone update the mailman package? It's outdated quite
> >> a long (at least since February 2009) and there is a new version
> >> 2.1.13 from December 2009.
> >> 
> >> Thank you!
> >> 
> >> Dan
> > 
> > Flag it as out of date.
> 
> More importantly, try bumping the version and building and *running*
> the new version yourself. That way you can tell the maintainers things
> work great and they are relieved of some of the burden of testing a
> very unweildy to package package.
> 
> -Dan


Hi,

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. 

Thanks
Dan


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