I’ve got the Mailman upgrade procedure worked out and I’m having some other people take a look at the new lists.
It turns out that the standard upgrade procedure is actually the best thing to do here. We lose real name information for all list members, but that’s the breaks when you deal with unsupported home-brew software. The basic procedure is, for each list:
1. tar up the list settings and archives.
2. untar the tarball on the new system in the new Mailman directory
Then run update -f to force an update on all lists. Run check_perms to fix permissions problems. Then configure the lists with new settings: web_page_url and which_archiver (to make sure we’re using MHonArc). Then wipe and rebuild the archives. Finally, run htdig to generate the search indices.
Posted by Rowan Littell at February 25, 2005 11:57 AM