[postgis-devel] Mailman archives

[Paul Ramsey]

http://postgis.org/downloads/postgis-users-archive.tgz

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
> Someone may have noticed that URLs of archived mails for the mailing
> lists changed during the migration. I tried to understand why and
> hot to fix and came to the conclusion that re-generating the archives
> from the .mbox file is indeed too hard (too many bugs in the .mbox
> file we have and/or in the mailman python based parser for it).
>
> But maybe we have another chance, that is copying the old archive
> onto the new machine, and verify that new mails get archived with
> the proper new numbers. This is also recommended in this article:
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/567
>
> Of course doing that now would drop any new message from the archive,
> so the current .mbox file should first be backed up, and later merged
> in the copied one, trimming the old history and only appending the
> new one.
>
> Paul: do you see any problem with trying this ?
> If you get me a tarball of the whole directory archives on refraction
> I could try this locally.
>
> --strk;
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