[gentoo-dev] archives.gentoo.org linking brokenness

2008-01-27 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Hi folks, Due to some mhonarc brokenness, all existing external links to archives messages have become invalidated. We're looking at fixing it in such a way that it doesn't happen again (consistent hashes instead of sequential numbers), but it will be a day or two - restoring the old ones is not

Re: [gentoo-dev] archives.gentoo.org linking brokenness

2008-01-27 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 01:49:46AM -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: Due to some mhonarc brokenness, all existing external links to archives messages have become invalidated. We're looking at fixing it in such a way that it doesn't happen again (consistent hashes instead of sequential numbers),

Re: [gentoo-dev] archives.gentoo.org linking brokenness

2008-01-27 Thread Chris Gianelloni
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?

Re: [gentoo-dev] archives.gentoo.org linking brokenness

2008-01-27 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 05:31:36PM -0800, Chris Gianelloni 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? For example:

Re: [gentoo-dev] archives.gentoo.org linking brokenness

2008-01-27 Thread Alec Warner
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] archives.gentoo.org linking brokenness

2008-01-27 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 17:57 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: 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? Unfortunately the hard way, by hand. Ouch. The new ones use a