Re: gnus-sync.el v2

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:42:47 +0200 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote: 

>>>>>> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>:
>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>>> I have the user+password working so now I just need Yamaoka-san to
>>> confirm he won't push gnus-sync.el to Emacs, so we don't break the
>>> Emacs feature freeze.  I'll commit right after.

>> Confirmed.  Please go ahead.  Sorry for my lazy response.

SB> Ok.  Before I pull, is there something I should do to preserve my
SB> current marks?  I obviously also need to set up a new CouchDB server.
SB> Are there instructions somewhere?  Ie. a special database that needs to
SB> be created?  What port should I use?

Set `gnus-sync-backend' to '(lesync "http://yoururl:yourport/yourdatabase")

Then set it up, gnus-sync.el has a function for that too.  I gave
examples in the commentary.  Read it carefully.  It should be really easy.

As long as you don't call `gnus-sync-read' nothing will happen to break
your setup.  So call `gnus-sync-save' and admire the results in the
database.  Make sure they look reasonable.  The admin interface is at
http://yoururl:yourport/yourdatabase/_utils/index.html

When you're ready, call `gnus-sync-save' then you must `g' to get
everything updated, same as the old gnus-sync.el.  You may want to set
`gnus-verbose' to 10 and watch *Messages* carefully.

It's all experimental so please keep good backups :)

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:23:31 +0200 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote: 

SB> Note: I will do the obvious, such as copying both .newsrc.eld and the
SB> current sync file on the server

SB> What I was thinking of was: how do I proceed into the sync'able future,
SB> preserving all present marks.  Ie. how do I bring the current marks with
SB> me.

Just save from where you want to keep the marks.

>> I obviously also need to set up a new CouchDB server.  Are there
>> instructions somewhere?  Ie. a special database that needs to be
>> created?  What port should I use?

SB> I will start with apt-get'ing CouchDB

SB> I'm running debian stable, which has 0.11.0-2.3.  
SB>  http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/couchdb

SB> Is that new enough?

I'd go with the 1.x releases, if possible.  I have used 1.0.1 while
testing.  I don't know if that's close to 0.11 or not, sorry.

Ted