[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#468569: Bug#468569: no way to escape mailman/queue_files_present

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Hi Marcin,

On Friday 29 February 2008 17:03, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> I am currently preparing an installation of mailman on our system. In
> order to provide durability of the processed messages, we are going to
> arrange for /var/lib/mailman to be located on a block-level replicated
> filesystem.  Thus, if the box crashes, we will just mount the "safe"
> filesystem on a fresh one and rebuild it (install packages and apply
> configs).
>
> However the current mailman's preinst makes it problematic, as it bombs
> out if there are any queue files present. My guess is that it should be
> safe to install the same version of the software as the one which
> created the queue files? In that case it would really help if there was
> a way to override this check in some way.

Yes, this check could be improved (it's now too wide-ranging, at least it's 
safe but can be very inconvenient). However, the mailman team is currently 
not very well staffed.

If you or anyone else experiencing trouble with this can come up with a patch 
that improves this test's behaviour I'd gladly consider it.


cheers,
Thijs
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