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["Boyle, Brian" <address@concealed>]

Migrated sympa from CentOS to RHEL 9 about a year ago, it was fairly seamless.

I can send you migration notes if you're interested.

Brian

On 6/9/26, 8:25 AM, "Saadallah Itani" <address@concealed 
<mailto:address@concealed>unity on behalf of address@concealed 
<mailto:address@concealed>> wrote:


Great thanks!


I’ll go for RHEL 9 and will upgrade for future with leapp for in-place 
upgrade to future latest RHEL versions.


Debian upgrades are easier though…


Thanks


Regards,
Saad
Ext. 2229


Sent from my iPhone


> On 9 Jun 2026, at 4:21 PM, Xavier Bachelot <address@concealed 
> <mailto:address@concealed>> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've recently migrated an hand-installed sympa 6.1.24 over Debian 7 to a 
> packaged sympa 6.1.70 over Debian 12.
> Lot of stuff needed to be moved around in the filesystem, but once 
> everything was in place, the upgrade process went quite smoothly.
> 
> For the distribution, Debian or RHEL and clones are good choices, but not 
> the only ones. Go with the distribution you are the most confortable with.
> Debian usually doesn't have the latest version, which is currently 6.2.78. 
> Debian 13 ships sympa 6.2.76. Racke is taking care of the Debian package.
> On the RHEL side, sympa package is available in EPEL, and I keep it updated 
> to the latest version.
> 
> Regards,
> Xavier
> 
> Le 2026-06-09 14:56, Saadallah Itani a écrit :
>> 6.1.17
>> Regards,
>> Saad
>> Ext. 2229
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> On 9 Jun 2026, at 3:45 PM, Stefan Hornburg <address@concealed 
>>> <mailto:address@concealed>>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello Saad,
>>> which Sympa version are you running?
>>> Regards Racke
>>> On Tue, 9 Jun, 2026 at 11:35, Saadallah Itani <address@concealed 
>>> <mailto:address@concealed>>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Dears,
>>>> I have an old version of Sympa running on old RHEL, which OS
>>>> distribution would be the best and has less problems for upgrading
>>>> easily across major versions without a lot of downtime or
>>>> disruption and would support Sympa latest version?
>>>> Thank you
>>>> Regards,
>>>> _Saad_