From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80836 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Syncing Gnus Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:25:43 +0530 Message-ID: <8262gm5me8.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326031016 5988 80.91.229.12 (8 Jan 2012 13:56:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 13:56:56 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29118@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Jan 08 14:56:52 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RjtEx-0000zJ-8O for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:56:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RjtED-000285-Ne; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 07:56:05 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RjtEC-00027u-Kc for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 07:56:04 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RjtE9-0008CW-7H for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 07:56:02 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RjtE6-0003AR-Dt for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:55:58 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RjtE2-0000ZY-6K for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:55:54 +0100 Original-Received: from 123.201.50.148 ([123.201.50.148]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:55:54 +0100 Original-Received: from nsivaram.net by 123.201.50.148 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:55:54 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.201.50.148 User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110017 (No Gnus v0.17) Emacs/23.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iAlAb68Fk/4IaWW330oGHbitDlo= X-Spam-Score: -2.8 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80836 Archived-At: On Sun, Jan 08 2012,Richard Riley wrote: > This comes up everys now and again and I thought maybe time again. > > Who has recently set up gnus so its data is easily synced. There are a > plethora of location values some I think might overlap - I'm not sure - > I just know I keep finding News and Mail dirs in in my home dir every > now and again ;). Ideally there would be ONE variable to set and all > archives, news and mail and book marks and everything would go under > there so only that dir would by synced. It would include .newsrc* files > too. [snipped 14 lines] > Maybe I'm overthinking or panicking a little. All I want is ALL gnus > "runtime"* type data to sit under ONE directory. How is this best achieved? [snipped 9 lines] oh cthulhu! yes, yes, yes. If it can be done in a manner that is apparent with the least amount of configuration entries, that would be fantastic! I've sort of given up tracking where Gnus creates all the files and simply copy random files and folders over(not really) to any other machine when I migrate. But I wish if something like LaTeX TEXMF was designed (or something simpler if you want) to cater to all the twisted ways of Gnus. And I mean that in the nicest sense possible. sivaram --