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@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
+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, and missing cgi-bin/template/NMZ*dist. I dunno what those are
-about. TODO: figure out namazu integration.
-
+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
@@ -17,9 +20,18 @@ 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).
 
-The lists.fsf branch should be rebased to any changes from master, like this:
+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
+git checkout lists.fsf.org
 git rebase master
 # if there are merge conflicts, manually merge any .in files, then
 make configure
@@ -32,4 +44,14 @@ Then on lists.fsf.org:
 su mharc
 cd
 git fetch
-git reset --hard origin/lists.fsf
+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.