archives broken?

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Wed, 6 May 2009, Dave Korn wrote:

> Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
> > 
> >> Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
> >>> 2009/5/6 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>:
> >>>> It looks like a bunch of missing from
> >>>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-02/ are missing.  Anybody knows
> >>>> what could be the cause?
> >>> Relevant PRs 20336, 20588, 3119.
> >> I'm pretty sure I have a complete set of the messages.
> > 
> > I believe that we have a complete set of messages too.  Fixing the web
> > pages takes somebody with the time and energy to figure out what is
> > required.  The mailing list archives are built using mhonarc.  Any
> > volunteers?
> 
>   I could have a rummage.  I have a little experience with mhonarc, having
> installed and maintained some in-house mailing list archives in my last job.
> I never had to rebuild an index, but I recall reading that it's fairly
> straightforward to feed it emails in mbox format and get it to rebuild the
> indices (which hopefully should all line-up as they were before rather than
> result in any message numbers shifting about).

I really recommend adapting Jason's script to regenerate from the .txt 
versions and keep the message numbers the same; mboxes or qmail archives 
will almost certainly get some of the numbers slightly different.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com