Bug 145815

The paths are very clearly documented in /usr/share/doc/mailman-
*/INSTALL.REDHAT which are the installation instructions. The spec file 
description also points at this file for installation instructions. Could you 
be specific where you got the information and where the paths were wrong.

One possible way to have gotten an old outdated package description is if you 
have the rpm specspo installed. As long as you don't need foreign language 
translations you can remove this package and see if yum then gives you the 
current mailman description. What may have happened is that specspo contains 
translations for rpm descriptions and its way out of date, but if its 
installed rpm (which I believe yum invokes for the description) will prefer to 
give the text from specspo rather than what is actually in the rpm. I'd be 
really curious if this was your problem.

I agree they are very clearly setout in the INSTALL.REDHAT file

I got the information by typeing 'yum search mailman' on a fresh fc3 install
which outputs

*-* Start Output *-*

mailman.i386                             3:2.1.5-26             base
Matched from:
mailman
Mailman is software to help manage email discussion lists, much like
Majordomo and Smartmail. Unlike most similar products, Mailman gives
each mailing list a webpage, and allows users to subscribe,
unsubscribe, etc. over the Web. Even the list manager can administer
his or her list entirely from the Web. Mailman also integrates most
things people want to do with mailing lists, including archiving, mail
<-> news gateways, and so on.

Documentation can be found in: /usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.5

When the package has finished installing, you will need to perform some
additional installation steps, these are described in:
/usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.5/INSTALL.REDHAT


mailman.i386                             3:2.1.5-26             installed
Matched from:
mailman
Mailman is software to help manage email discussion lists, much like
Majordomo and Smartmail. Unlike most similar products, Mailman gives
each mailing list a webpage, and allows users to subscribe,
unsubscribe, etc. over the Web. Even the list manager can administer
his or her list entirely from the Web. Mailman also integrates most
things people want to do with mailing lists, including archiving, mail
<-> news gateways, and so on.

When the package has finished installing, you will need to:

* Run /var/mailman/bin/mmsitepass
to set the mailman administrator password.
* Edit /var/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py
to customize mailman's configuration for your site.
* Modify the sendmail configuration to ensure that it is running and
accepting connections from the outside world (to ensure that it runs,
set "DAEMON=yes" in /etc/sysconfig/sendmail, ensuring that it accepts
connections from the outside world may require modifying
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc and regenerating sendmail.cf), and
* Add these lines:
ScriptAlias /mailman/ /var/mailman/cgi-bin/
Alias /pipermail/ /var/mailman/archives/public/
<Directory /var/mailman/archives>
Options +FollowSymlinks
</Directory>
to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to configure your Web server.

Users upgrading from previous releases of this package may need to
move their data or adjust the configuration files to point to the
locations where their data is.

*-* Stop Output *-*

I just did a test, the output is coming from specspo and is outdated. I'm 
reassigning this bug to specspo.

Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security
updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and
reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and
hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test
release, reopen and change the version to match.

Thank you!

I can't reproduce this bug with yum on FC5...

Thanks for checking. Marking working in FC5.