Bug 22054 – Mailman slightly b0rken (not using /var)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alexander Hoogerhuis 2003-06-01 12:32:08 UTC]

mailman should be built using INSTALLDIR="/usr" and 
--with-var-prefix="/var/mailman", so seperate static content with mutable
content. This would also be closer to LFS.

-A

[Comment 1 Narada Sage 2003-08-28 03:47:37 UTC]

Here is what the message after emerging mailman says:

 * The home directory for mailman has been moved from /var/mailman
 * (pre 2.1.1-r2) or /home/mailman (2.1.1-r3) to /usr/local/mailman
 * This should hopefully solve any problems, and this is what the mailman
 * default is. (Any existing config has been saved in the
 * new home directory.)

This leads me to believe that the use of /usr/local is recent and deliberate.

[Comment 2 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2004-01-06 15:09:39 UTC]

closing with 2.1.4