[Systers-dev] build error

[Kathy Richardson]

Just for clarification:  use Ubuntu 8.04 LTS



Kathy Richardson wrote:
> Installing and starting with Ubuntu 8.4 is the know working and 
> production path for the systers code base.
> Some of the GSOG upgrades will address moving it forward.  It has not 
> been built on 9.10.
>
> General advise:  use Ubuntu 8.4
>
> If you are particularly interested in projects that involve porting, 
> testing, and release and you bring the system up on 9.10 - this would 
> be one way to show your skills.  Otherwise try, 8.4, and/or the 
> virtual machine build.
>
> -Kathy
>
> sruthi devi wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>      As Jennifer pointed out,ubuntu 9.10 is using python-2.6 .So I built
>> python 2.5 from sources and it temporarily fixed the issue. But I am not
>> able to generate alias.db file.Here is the error
>>
>> systers at sruthi-laptop:/usr/local/mailman$ cd /usr/local/mailman/
>> systers at sruthi-laptop:/usr/local/mailman$ sudo bin/genaliases
>> postalias: fatal: open /etc/postfix/main.cf: No such file or directory
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "bin/genaliases", line 116, in <module>
>>     main()
>>   File "bin/genaliases", line 102, in main
>>     MTA.create(None, nolock=True, quiet=quiet)
>>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in create
>>     _update_maps()
>>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, in 
>> _update_maps
>>     raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr)
>> RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias
>> /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted)
>> systers at sruthi-laptop:/usr/local/mailman$
>>
>>
>> How shall I know my domain name is valid? Should I necessarily shift to
>> ubuntu-8.04?
>>
>> Thank you for your support.Any suggestions would be helpful.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sruthi Devi
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 26 March 2010 20:59, Jennifer Redman <jenred at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> Hi Sruthi,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:43 AM, sruthi devi <devisruthi at gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    
>>>> On executing "sudo make install" in directory ~/mailman-2.1.10
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone help me?I am using ubuntu-9.10. Thanks in advance
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> Kanika Vats has put together a Virtual Box image to use for 
>>> development.
>>> Instructions are here:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://systers.org/systers-dev/doku.php/setting_up_the_development_environment 
>>>
>>>
>>> If you'd still like to build things from scratch -- I recommend the 
>>> first
>>> thing you do is try using ubuntu 8.04lts.  Everything we do is on that
>>> version of Ubuntu and I suspect you may be running into some 
>>> problems due to
>>> different versions of Python - I think 9.10 uses Python 2.6.
>>>
>>> Jen
>>>
>>>     
>>
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