ports/56891: "portinstall mailman" fails

Mon Sep 15 13:20:08 UTC 2003

>Number:         56891
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       "portinstall mailman" fails
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 15 06:20:06 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Heinrich Rebehn
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
University Of Bremen
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de 4.9-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE #4: Thu Sep 11 13:49:53 CEST 2003 root at antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de:/export/huge/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ANTSRV1 i386

>Description:
	Trying to install "mailman" from ports using "make clean install "
        in /usr/ports/mail/mailman or "portinstall mailman" results in:
        Compiling /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/i18n.py ...
	Compiling /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/versions.py ...
	Traceback (most recent call last):
  		File "bin/update", line 48, in ?
    			from Mailman import MailList
  		File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 49, in ?
    			from Mailman.Archiver import Archiver
  		File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/__init__.py", line 17, in ?
    			from Archiver import *
  		File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 36, in ?
    			from Mailman.i18n import _
  		File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/i18n.py", line 52, in ?
    			set_language()
  		File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/i18n.py", line 34, in set_language
    		_translation = gettext.translation('mailman', mm_cfg.MESSAGES_DIR,
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'MESSAGES_DIR'
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/mail/mailman/work/mailman-2.1.2.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/mail/mailman.

>How-To-Repeat:
	Try to install mailman from current ports tree (as of 15-SEP-2003)
>Fix:

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