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Bug 156434 - net-mail/mailman installation documentation - precisions
Summary: net-mail/mailman installation documentation - precisions
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Low trivial (vote)
Assignee: Hanno Böck
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Reported: 2006-11-27 11:37 UTC by Sylvain Demers
Modified: 2009-04-02 13:02 UTC (History)
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diff for the README.gentoo file (README.gentoo.diff,673 bytes, patch)
2006-11-27 12:32 UTC, Sylvain Demers
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Description Sylvain Demers 2006-11-27 11:37:40 UTC
The extra Gentoo documentation for Mailman could use a little precision. Should take about 2 minutes to change! :)

/usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.9_rc1/README.gentoo.gz

Right at the top, there are instructions to "add -D MAILMAN to the /etc/conf.d/apache2 file". At first I thought I was supposed to add "-D MAILMAN" all by itself on a single line at the end of the file. The documentation should say something like "add the -D MAILMAN flag to the APACHE2_OPTS variable".

Second, right before the instructions on changing the /etc/mail/aliases, there should be a note for Postfix users to read the last section of the document. I followed the instructions and ended up modifying the file only to find out that I should not have done that. I had already read the installation instructions on Mailman's website before, but I had forgotten that exception when I was actually installing Mailman.
Comment 1 Sylvain Demers 2006-11-27 12:32:47 UTC
Created attachment 102862 [details, diff]
diff for the README.gentoo file

Here's my take on how it could be phrased.
Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen 2007-07-12 17:21:42 UTC
Also, the dodoc README.gentoo by default creates a .bz2 file, not a .gz file (yes, nitpicking).
Comment 3 Hanno Böck gentoo-dev 2007-11-26 02:15:17 UTC
done