On 1/27/08, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 01:49 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > sequential numbers), but it will be a day or two - restoring the old > > ones is not possible at all. > > Umm... OK. What's the new format? Do we just have to go an manually > change every single link we've ever made to anything on archives? How > are we going to find the articles if the old links don't work? >
So slight postmortem: The url per e-mail depended on the order of processing for messages: the first message got 1, the second got 2 and so forth. The upgrade ruined that database. To prevent this in the future, Robin created a scheme that is not dependent on the order of processing (which is harder that it sounds as we discussed on -infra last night). We don't have a mapping from old e-mails to new ones. If you know what the title was you can probably fish the message out of the archives; otherwise you are probably SOL. The bonus out of all this is that the new storage format could get destroyed and we wouldn't have this problem (archives would just be down for two days while infra regenerates the indexes. -Alec -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
