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[Adam Bernstein <address@concealed>]

> So: what's the best path here?  Pull the MySQL subscribers DB and archives
> across and try and fixup the configuration in Sympa?  Maybe 'downgrade' the
> new install by installing 5.2.1, pulling the existing lists across and then
> incrementally upgrading Sympa?

Oh I wouldn't do that.  I would suggest:

1. On the old system, via WWSympa close all the lists.  (This will dump 
the subscribers to a flat file in the list's directory.)

2. Move all the list's files over (from expl, arc, bounce, and spool 
(/task, /moderation, /digest) if there's anything in there).  If you're 
moving all lists at once, this should just be a matter of copying those 
whole directories.

3. On the new system, via WWSympa open each list.

4. If you have any customizations in etc, manually migrate them into the 
newer versions of equivalent files, to avoid incompatibilities or 
missing features.

Something like that.  Or instead of the close/open operation to move the 
subscribers over, you could just dump and copy over the database, and 
then on the new server edit the file data_structure.version to say 
"5.2.1".  Then run "sympa.pl --upgrade" to update the database to 6.0 or 
whatever version is running there.

    adam