From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38312 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: self-contained nnml Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 10:29:10 -0500 Sender: rlb@defaultvalue.org Message-ID: <87y9o6rgah.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <87wv3tqd1q.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87lmk90z3w.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174196 21698 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:23:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:23:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 20256 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2001 15:29:01 -0000 Original-Received: from dsl-209-87-109-2.constant.com (HELO defaultvalue.org) (postfix@209.87.109.2) by gnus.org with SMTP; 26 Aug 2001 15:29:01 -0000 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F249126F; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 10:28:59 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7B92C5276; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 10:29:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Simon Josefsson In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sat, 25 Aug 2001 11:43:40 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38312 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38312 Simon Josefsson writes: > Remember that the active file is per server. I think nnml > automatically regenerates active info for new groups though. Well, it doesn't seem to notice new directories. So just untarring the directory isn't sufficient. I'm going to try ShengHuo's suggestion of using "G m", but I'm not sure if that will work since if I do "G m" before I untar the directory, I'll get an empty group with an incorrect active listing, but if I do it after, "G m" might be confused by the pre-existing directory. What I really need is something like a nnml-scan-for-new-groups, or an nnml-notice-new-group. Actually, what would be more appropriate, and perhaps useful to others, would be gnus-group-archive-group and gnus-group-restore-group commands. Each one would prompt you for the destination, and the group contents would be saved or restored as appropriate. The format could be a compressed tarfile containing the messages and the metadata. > Group level and group parameters are not store stored in the nnml > directory though. If we wanted to have truly stand-alone nnml groups, then I suppose they should be. However, if they were handled properly by the archive/restore functions, then that would probably be good enough for most purposes. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD