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Mark Duling wrote:

> I see.  If I see this problem again I'll check the 'data_structure' file;
> it's fine now but Sympa is up and happy now.  But what was happening in my
> case was that the migration process was happening on the first launch of
> Sympa after the install.  I wouldn't really care but it was renaming all
> the web_tt2 templates to *.oldtemplate and not replacing them with
> anything, which effectively disabled the web interface.  Should the
> migrate process behave like this even when a migration needs to happen?
>  
The path where  templates are installed define if the template is 
related to a specific list, to a robot, to the entire site or if it's 
part of the distribution. What Sympa does is the case you describe is to 
rename templates you may have customized your self (templates under the 
list directory, under robot etc directory or under sympa etc directory) 
. This way templates comming from the distribution replace them and 
Sympa do not mixe old style templates with the new CSS's one and the web 
interface should stay effective.

If you don't have any customized templates Sympa will just install its 
templates from distribution, else you need to check and maybe modify 
your customized templates.  The problem you had may be caused by a bad 
definition of installation location where Sympa home directory have be 
defined at the same place then the Sympa installation binary directory 
so templates from distribution are recognized as customized templates 
from the site.

> I'm doing a DarwinPorts port of Sympa and so I do installs and re-installs
> rather than adjusting the installed files.  I'd done it a lot with no
> problems and suddenly the migration issue popped up.  I'm trying to
> anticipate any installation problems users might have.
>  
Such packaging may be very usefull because more and more Sympa users use 
MacOs X.

Serge Aumont

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