[vps-mail] Mailman vinstall does not upgrade

[Matt Cohen <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Just an FYI to those of you who use mailman and were thinking of 
using the new VPS2 mailman vinstall to 2.1.8

I just tried it on a server and it doesn't do an upgrade - it just 
attempts to install right over the top and while it says it was 
successful, it doesn't do anything.

Here's the steps I did to upgrade my mailman install (starting from 
/usr/local/mailman/bin).  I didn't want to just copy the 
/lists/listname/config.pck files since there might have been changes 
that I wouldn't take advantage of in this way.

How to upgrade Mailman using vinstall:

1)export list of names

% ./list_members -f -o listname.txt listname

2)export configuration

% ./config_list -o listname.config listname

3)move above files to some other directory for safekeeping OUTSIDE of 
the mailman directory

% mv listname* ../../some/other/directory

4)Rename mailman directory

% cd / ; mv /usr/local/mailman /usr/local/mailman.old

5)Perform vinstall

% vinstall mailman

6)Optional - if vinstall fails, you may need to delete the package 
receipt for the old install from /var/db/pkg and repeat step 5

7)create new lists, re-do configuration and import user list

% ./newlist listname@xxxxxxxxxx

% ./config_list -i /path/to/listname.config listname

% ./add_members --welcome-msg=n -r /path/to/listname.txt listname

8)If you have archvies, move them over from the mailman.old directory 
to their path in the new mailman directory

[My lists are all non-archived, so I don't have any explicit 
directions here, but it should be just as stated above]

That should be it - if i've missed something, let me know.  Hope this 
helps someone.

Matt
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