On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 03:59:16AM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > There are many thousand links to the freebsd pipermail archives, > and invalidating all those links sounds like a serious loss of institutional > memory. > > Is there a way to cope with that ? Some sort of > lookup 'old link' -> 'new link' ?
Internally, the Mailman archives are just a bunch of script-generated flat HTML and TXT files. The only Mailman specific thing is the bit of logic that gates access to a private archive with a credential check. For public archives (which if my understanding is right, most Mailman-managed FreeBSD lists are) there should just be a line somewhere in your HTTPD config that aliases pipermail/ to <Mailman_inst_dir>/archives/public/. So no matter what you switch to if/when Mailman2 dies, it should be fairly trivial to preserve the current archives in a read-only state at their current URLs. Even private ones, assuming you replace the Mailman gatekeeper with something else (perhaps access control in your HTTPD itself). -- Greg Veldman free...@gregv.net _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
