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[mharc.git] / README.FSF

Note: This repo is prone to being force pushed because, commits are
meant as documentation of whats changed from upstream and whats been
deployed for significant periods, so sometimes its better to edit them
as they are developed.

We do not use use the provided read-mail to process spools and we don't
use lists.def. We bypass that part of mharc and call web-archive
instead.

This repo is based on mharc 0.7.3 release. The .dist files are all the
upstream except changing path names of standard utilities to match the
distro. I dunno what those are about.

The .dist files should never be changed except when upgrading to new
upstream version (and there does exist a non-release snapshot we should
upgrade to).

Any file with a correspond .in version should never be manually edited,
instead generated from the .in file by running make configure. Note,
make configure must be run from /home/mharc (checkout into that
directory on your local system).

Ansible pulls a branch with the name of the current hostname, so lists.gnu.org
is an alias to master, and lists.dev.fsf.org is an alias to lists.fsf.org.
This was achieved by doing for example:

vcs.fsf.org $
sudo -i -u git
cd /home/git/repositories/mharc.git
git symbolic-ref refs/heads/lists.dev.fsf.org refs/heads/lists.fsf.org

The lists.fsf.org branch should be rebased to any changes from master, like this:

git checkout lists.fsf.org
git rebase master
# if there are merge conflicts, manually merge any .in files, then
make configure
git add .
git rebase --continue
git push -f

Then on lists.fsf.org:

su mharc
cd
git fetch
git reset --hard origin/lists.fsf.org


To update existing lists headers, the only way namazu supports is to
rebuild the index, but that takes about 3 days. Instead, I put a random
unique string into the header where the list name goes, copied it to
/tmp, su mharc, cd to the html dir, then ran this:

for x in */NMZ.head; do sed "s/gachJefyeonJoa/${x%/*}/g" /tmp/NMZ.head>$x || { echo failed on $x; break; } ; done

This process can be repeated for more changes.