[gentoo-dev-announce] archives.gentoo.org linking brokenness

[gentoo-dev-announce] archives.gentoo.org linking brokenness

[Robin H. Johnson]

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Hi folks,

Due to some mhonarc brokenness, all existing external links to archives
messages have become invalidated. We're looking at fixing it in such a
way that it doesn't happen again (consistent hashes instead of
sequential numbers), but it will be a day or two - restoring the old
ones is not possible at all.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy
E-Mail     : robbat2@gentoo.org
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[gentoo-dev-announce] Re: [gentoo-dev] archives.gentoo.org linking brokenness

[Robin H. Johnson]

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On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 01:49:46AM -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> Due to some mhonarc brokenness, all existing external links to archives
> messages have become invalidated. We're looking at fixing it in such a
> way that it doesn't happen again (consistent hashes instead of
> sequential numbers), but it will be a day or two - restoring the old
> ones is not possible at all.
Ok, all of the archives are fixed.

Here's an example of a new link:
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-gwn/msg_916064a3a0913217d311541108d04782.xml

That's going to be constant forever now, regardless of how many times
mhonarc rebuilds it's entire index.

However, please note that any attachments linked from a mail might
change their URLs depending on mhonarc, so you should only link directly
to the mail itself.

If you see any problems with mails, if you see any new problems with
archive mails, please file a bug for Infrastructure.

-- 
Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy
E-Mail     : robbat2@gentoo.org
GnuPG FP   : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED  F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85

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