Hi Finn, On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 12:42 AM Finn Thain <fth...@telegraphics.com.au> wrote: > On Sun, 20 Oct 2019, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > I'm working to add this list to lore.kernel.org. > > That's great news because lore.kernel.org is a search engine that actually > works.
Yes, and recently, lots of commits gained Link: tags, so as soon as the archive is populated, those will start working (they already do if e.g. lkml was CCed on the original patch posting). > > As one of prerequisites they require that we provide full existing > > archives of all list messages (or, at least, as complete as possible). > > I've collected mine already, but would really appreciate if you could > > pitch in from your own collection. > > > > Just follow the instructions on this page: > > https://korg.wiki.kernel.org/userdoc/lore > > > > For anyone else attempting this, note that linux-m68k has two addresses, > so you need to pass two '-l' parameters: > -l linux-m68k.vger.kernel.org linux-m68k.lists.linux-m68k.org Correct. > The above wiki page neglects to mention that the 'list-archive-maker.py' > script has serious problems. I'd say: ignore that script. > Another problem with that script is that it captures too much. It will > grab messages that appear to be cross-posted (based on To: or Cc:) even if > those messages never reached linux-m68k. I suppose the idea is that > capturing too much is better than too little? I think that's intentional: when CCing multiple lists, possibly with a personal CC too, people may have stored a single copy of the received email only, while you still want it in the archive. Still, one might question why those messages never reached the list... > > My archive should be fairly complete, except for network outages, and e.g. > > the Gandi email disaster week 2 years ago. And I don't have anything from > > the real early days, unfortunately. > > I'll let you know if I find any missing messages here Thanks! Please note that I discovered that something went wrong when creating export-linux-m68k-vger.kernel.org2.mbox, so it lacks some emails I do have. I uploaded those IDs to an additional file (84 IDs): http://users.telenet.be/geertu/export-linux-m68k-vger.kernel.org2.id.extra.xz > > Note that sanitization script choked on some mails from the old > > phil.uni-sb.de list, so it didn't succeed for me. > > Was that the "From" bug? I am experimenting with pre-processing of mboxes > to substitute the "From" lines in the message bodies. Not yet sure if this > will be entirely successful... Possibly, my old archives were stored in Alpine mboxes. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
