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For the most part, mailing lists upgrade themselves with the new
versions. However, there are some changes in the filesystem that need
to be taken care of separately. Running "make update" takes care of
this for you. If you still have problems upgrading after running
this, or want to integrate mbox archives into the Pipermail archiving,
read on.
"make update" creates a file named "update.log" in the top level of
the source distribution. If the script that updates the Mailman
filesystem encounters something that is not resolvable, it will log
info about this to "update.log". This might be worth checking.
Below is an annotated listing of the things that "make update" does.
Hopefully, this will help resolve any problems you are having.
We update this procedure for each Mailman release, so it can't hurt to
run "make update" each time you upgrade.
- The upgrade to 1.0b7 included the removal of Mailman/smtplib.py{,c}
since Mailman now uses the default Python 1.5.2 version of smtplib.
- Archiving files are moved around as part of integrating Pipermail
into Mailman, as of 1.0b6. In particular,
1) if a list has only a private mbox archive
$prefix/archives/private/<listname> is moved to
$prefix/archives/private/<listname>.mbox/<listname>
2) if a list has only a public mbox archive
$prefix/archives/public/<listname> is moved to
$prefix/archives/private/<listname>.mbox/<listname>
and a symlink is made that points
$prefix/archives/public/<listname>.mbox to
$prefix/archives/private/<listname>.mbox/<listname>
3) if a list has both private and public mbox archives,
make update picks one of the above 2 configurations based on whether
or not the list currently is archived publicly. It then renames the
other mbox to mbox.preb6.
4) if a list used recent CVS sources, where archives were placed in
$prefix/public_html/archives, then these are moved to
$prefix/archives/private/<listname> and a symlink is made from
$prefix/archives/public/<listname> to that spot if the list's
archives are public. Also, a permissions-related security problem
is removed.
To integrate mbox archives of old lists, log in as user `mailman'
and run $prefix/bin/arch <listname> <path-to-mbox-archive>.
Also, by default, beta6 does both mbox and html based archiving, but
you can configure Mailman to do one, both, or neither. Please see
$prefix/Mailman/Defaults.py for details.
There was a short period of time when the CVS sources archiving code
was not organized into its own package. The pickled articles in the
archives that were placed into archives during this period stored
the path to the module HyperArch, but that module has moved. You
can quick fix this by running
ln -s $prefix/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py \
$prefix/Mailman/HyperArch.py
- If upgrading from version 1.0b4 or earlier, "make update" moves
list-specific templates. For each list,
$prefix/templates/<listname>/* is moved to $prefix/lists/<listname>.
Please reference the generic templates in $prefix/templates to see
if any variables have changed (There shouldn't be many, only
options.html was updated from b5 to b6).
- Some modules that existed in previous versions, but that have been
replaced with newer (differently named) modules, are removed.
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