Topic: Mailman problem after update

[CharlieBrady]

Charlie.. the problem is well explained in mailman (the one in smecontribs repo) changelog:

Having a problem well described in a change log does very little to prevent users from having problems.

OP had a problem. How could that have been prevented, or automatically rectified.

All followup to the bug tracker  please.

[chris burnat]

There is no benefits continuing this discussion here when a Bug has been opened, it only creates confusion (i.e. is it version 7 or version 8...). 
Please follow up at Bugzilla ---->  http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6582.  When resolved, announce it here.
Thanks.

[chaloner]

There is a version of Mailman that worked, and it has been replaced by one that does not.  How do we roll back to the one that worked until someone gets around to fixing the package?

I have customers using the server and the package.  Finding a new package maintainer is not a particularly quick or easy solution from our end.

I have the rpm's that work. Just uninstallled and re-installed them to be sure. They are working just fine. Do you need them? I can set up a tarball for you to download if you need.

[CharlieBrady]

I have the rpm's that work. Just uninstallled and re-installed them to be sure. They are working just fine. Do you need them? I can set up a tarball for you to download if you need.

chaloner, please attach the rpms to the bug report.

[chaloner]

I will load up a tarball with the name mailman.tar right now at ftp://chaloner.ca

Hi Charlie...

Chal

[chaloner]

Done!

[Stefano]

Done!

Chal, as Charlie told you, please attach your rpms to the bug, thank you
your tar is useless if not in bugzilla

[chaloner]

I am sorry I have not done that before. Can you not just download it and post it yourself please...

Chal

[Stefano]

I'm sorry, but I can't connect to your server..

[chaloner]

My server is working just fine... ftp://chaloner.ca/mailman.tar

I tried to upload this file and it times out. Tried twice... this is all I can do... sorry...

Chal

[chris burnat]

Here is the problem I think:
The file you are trying to attach is 7280 kilobytes (KB) in size. Non-patch attachments cannot be more than 1000 KB.
We recommend that you store your attachment elsewhere and then insert the URL to it in a comment, or in the URL field for this bug.
Alternately, if your attachment is an image, you could convert it to a compressible format like JPG or PNG and try again.

[ricks1950]

I've got to say, I'm really quite confused.  I have just reread the bugs, and this thread, and I cannot tell if Mailman is going to install on 8.0 or not, or it the basic issue will be resolved or not. 

I got it working on 7.51 by downgrading the mailman rpm to an earlier version, as suggested.  If I follow the installation procedure from the wiki on 8.0, the smeserver-mailman package is not found, and to get mailman to work, you have to configure some files that appear to be set up by templates. 

If the old smeserver-mailman rpm can be installed locally, I would be happy to do so.  Some clarity would be appreciated.