Importing the old apt-rpm archives

[Panu Matilainen]

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 22:05 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 21:18 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> > > On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 18:49 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> > > > > Panu,
> > > > > 
> > > > > It would be nice if the old archives could be imported into the new list. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > With mailman it shouldn't be that difficult to put the 'mailboxes' in 
> > > > > place (or merge them) and generate the new archive.
> > > > 
> > > > Unfortunately I don't have direct access to the mailman archives on
> > > > lists.laiskiainen.org, I'd have to ask support folks to do it and I'm
> > > > not sure if this is "supported activity" :) 
> > > > 
> > > > I *could* quite easily put the gzipped archives from the old list to
> > > > some directory on apt-rpm.laiskiainen.org if you're simply worried about
> > > > longer term availability of the old list archives.
> > > 
> > > I think the gzipped archives is enough to add them to your new mailinglist 
> > > archive. I have migrated old mailinglists like that as well.
> > 
> > I understood that much from a quick googling around on the subject, the
> > point is that I don't have access to the archives on
> > lists.laiskiainen.org :-/ Oh well, I can always pull those gzipped files
> > somewhere and see if DH support is willing to put them in the correct
> > place.
> 
> Sorry I misinterpreted what you said. Thanks for caring though, the other 
> archive contains a lot of useful information and I hate to see it 
> disappear at some point :/

Indeed... and things like the list being dead for several days
occasionally (like it is right now) doesn't help convince me it's there
to stay. So FWIW, the old mailing list archives can be found here for
now until I either get them imported to the current list or something:
http://apt-rpm.laiskiainen.org/cnc-archives/

	- Panu -