Re: Agent and gnus-group-clear-data

["Kevin Greiner" <kevin.greiner@compsol.cc>]

No.  I can see where people might want to clear marks (i.e. gnus-
group-clear-data) without purging the content that they have 
downloaded.  In this particular case, the old article numbers have 
been invalidated so Rahed needed to do both.

There's a section in the manual on 'Changing Servers' that 
mentions gnus-group-clear-data.  It needs to be updated to also 
reference gnus-agent-flush-cache (to purge the old articles).  Do 
you think we should add another section named 'Renumbering 
Articles' to discuss the sort of problem that Rahed encountered?

Kevin


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From:  Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
Reply-To:  Reiner Steib <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>
Date:  Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:48:27 +0100

>Hi,
>
>shouldn't `gnus-group-clear-data' also clear the agent data?
>
>See the following thread on gnu.emacs.gnus:
>
>| From: rahed <rahed@e-last-minute.com>
>| Subject: article reset on the server
>| Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
>| Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:55:42 +0100
>| Message-ID: <uek54omqp.fsf@e-last-minute.com>
>| http://www.google.de/groups?
as_umsgid=v9u0e01n7m.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de&hl=en
>
>On Tue, Nov 29 2005, rahed wrote:
>
>> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc> writes:
>>>> M-c cleared all article marks but article numbers are 
untouched. So
>>>> after entering the group I can see only old subject names 
articles. New
>>>> ones which do exist on the server are consequently seen as 
read by the gnus.
>>>
>>> `M-c' doesn't fail for me:
>>>
>>> ,----[ Output of `G E' before `M-c' ]
>>> | ("gmane.announce" 3
>>> |  ((1 . 7483)
>>> |   (7485 . 7492))
>>> |  ((seen
>>> |    (7448 . 7492))))
>>> `----
>>>
>>> Note that the read article ranges "(1 . 7483) (7485 . 7492)" 
disappear
>>> after `M-c':
>>>
>>> ,----[ Output of `G E' after `M-c' ]
>>> | ("gmane.announce" 3 nil nil)
>>> `----
>>>
>>> I noticed that `M c' doesn't clear the data in the .agentview 
file of
>>> the group.  Maybe this matters.
>>>
>>> ,----[ cat 
News/agent/nntp/localhost/gmane/announce/.agentview ]
>>> | ((7448 . 732279) (7449 . 732279) [...]
>>> |  (7491 . 732279) (7492 . 732279))
>>> `----
>[...]
>> Thank you for following me. After deleting .agentview for the 
group
>> everything is back to normal.
>
>Bye, Reiner.
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