[Mailman-Users] Moved list, archiving
Mark Sapiro
msapiro at value.net
Wed Jan 31 01:26:36 CET 2007
G. Armour Van Horn wrote:
>I spoke too soon. I got a lot of this:
>
>#Unix-From line changed: 175609
> From the wire service copy:
>#######Unix-From line changed: 176324
> From the MM press release:
>##########################Unix-From line changed: 178901
> From a designers view I think FW is the most powerful tool. I designed
>######Unix-From line changed: 179571
> From my web site:
>Unix-From line changed: 179573
> From my experience, there is no specific palette grouping that causes
>Pal to
>
>(I had used the "-s 100" option to output a # every hundred lines.)
This is normal output from cleanarch doing what it is supposed to do,
Namely prepending '>' to lines that begin with 'From ' that don't look
like Unix mbox message separators
>Every case cleanarch came upon was a valid bit of text inside a message.
>Then I went and looked at the actual output, and saw that cleanarch had
>prepended a ">" to the lines that were part of running text, so I
>renamed files so the output from cleanarch was the live file and ran
>arch again.
So far so good.
>I think it may have made things worse, it looks like the same messages
>that were there before still ended up in the January archive. They still
>have date tags based on the time of running arch for the first time on
>the new machine yesterday afternoon. These dates are not found in the
>mbox file.
Did you remember the --wipe option when you reran bin/arch?
>Looking at the messages in the January archive, it looks like there are
>only about 25 messages, not really a huge task to go back and repair
>manually. The question then becomes, what do I need to do to the mbox
>file so that arch will know where to actually break things, and do I
>need to do anything special to make sure that the messed up archive
>elements are no longer present?
First make sure you've run 'bin/arch --wipe' with the cleanarch'd .mbox.
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