Patches for Mailman 2.1.12?

[Richard Barrett]

I'll try and find time to produce updated patches for 2.1.12 in the  
next couple of days.

On 8 Jul 2009, at 18:04, Tom Simes wrote:

>
> Hello Richard,
>
> The FreeBSD Mailman port relies on your patches 444879 and 444884 to
> build and I cannot reach the port maintainter currently.  For  
> better or
> worse, the port has the patch filenames keyed to the current Mailman
> version, like so:
>
> PATCH_SITES+=   http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mm/patches/444879/:patch1 \
>                 http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mm/patches/444884/:patch2
> PATCHFILES+=    indexing-${DISTVERSION}-0.1.patch.gz:patch1 \
>                 htdig-${DISTVERSION}-0.1.patch.gz:patch2
>
> So since May the Mailman port has been failing because it cannot
> retrieve these two files (which don't exist):
>
> http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mm/patches/444879/ 
> indexing-2.1.12-0.1.patch.gz
> http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mm/patches/444884/htdig-2.1.12-0.1.patch.gz
>
> Your web server logs should confirm this in spades.
>
> Would it be possible for you to update these two patches against  
> Mailman
> 2.1.12?  Thank you for continuing to bump these along even though you
> started out maintaining them for your personal use only!
>
> FreeBSD ports team,
>
> Mail to the port maintainer (jmelo at FreeBSD.org) is getting a 550  
> off the
> address it's currently forwarded to.  The portupgrade behaviour in  
> this
> case is nasty because for some reason the old mailman install is being
> nuked and not properly restored when the build fails.  I patched the
> port Makefile and distinfo to build Mailman 2.1.11 with the  
> appropriate
> 444879 & 444884 patches and my Mailman install is back in business,  
> but
> others might not be able to help themselves.  I'll be glad to  
> supply the
> patches if it would help, although they don't get folks any closer to
> Mailman 2.1.12.
>
> -- 
> Tom
>
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>
> Tom Simes                                       simestd at netexpress.com
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