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On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:

> 1/ backing up the hacked [mailman] files and restoring them later  
> (but I will
> overwrite the newer files with older ones perhaps breaking something).
> 2/ making them read only (but the end result will be the same and
> upgrading as root I will overwrite them anyway).

Keep in mind mailman is all python.  There really is nothing to  
recompile after a system upgrade.  (Unless you are upgrading python  
which you aren't).

Cheers,

-j