From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>,
Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Jasper Spaans <j@jasper.es>
Subject: Re: [RFC] LKML Archive in Maildir Format
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 03:44:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190307034453.pbhmllhmsjy6kvtc@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAErSpo6QTdABwBx-nvkmJyv7JHb95azapwLtBf++Ved7=UpMWA@mail.gmail.com>
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 5:26 PM Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
> > Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> wrote:
>
> > > Any pointers? I guess there's no mutt backend that can read a
> > > public-inbox archive directly?
> >
> > There's mutt patches to support reading over NNTP, so that
> > works:
> >
> > mutt -f news://$INBOX_HOST/$INBOX_NEWSGROUP
>
> Neomutt includes NNTP support, so I tried this:
>
> neomutt -f news://nntp.lore.kernel.org/org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
>
> which worked OK but (1) I only see the most recent 1000 messages and
> (2) obviously isn't reading a *local* archive. Neomutt took about 45
> seconds to start up over my wimpy ISP.
>
> I assume I could probably have a local archive and run a local NNTP
> server and point neomutt at that local server. But I don't know how
> full-archive searching would work there.
Right. AFAIK there isn't a good solution for search via NNTP.
> > I don't think mutt handles mboxrd 100% correctly, but it's close
> > enough that you can can download the gzipped mboxrd of a search
> > query and open it via "mutt -f /path/to/downloaded/mbox.gz"
> >
> > curl -XPOST -OJ "$INBOX_URL/?q=$SEARCH_QUERY&x=m"
>
> I got nothing at all with -XPOST, but this:
Ah, I guess nginx (or something in AWS) rejects POST without
Content-Length headers. Adding "-HContent-Length:0"
to the command-line with -XPOST works for lore.
> curl -OJ "https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/?q=d:20190301..&x=m"
>
> got me the HTML source. Nothing that looks like mboxrd. I assume
Right. The "x=m" requests an mbox; but it's only available via
POST requests (to prevent search engine spiders from wasting
time on non-HTML content). With the HTML output in a browser,
the "mbox.gz" button makes the POST request and allows you to
download the mbox.
> this is stupid user error on my part, but even with that resolved, it
> wouldn't have the nice git fetch properties of the git archive, i.e.,
> incremental updates of only new stuff, would it?
You could bump d:YYYYMMDD (there's also "dt:" for date-time if
you need more precision).
> I think my ideal solution would be a mutt that could read the git
> archive directly, plus a notmuch index. But AFAIK, mutt can't do
> that, and notmuch only works with one message per file, not with the
> git archive.
>
> Something that might work would be to use Konstantin's "git archive to
> maildir" hint but shard into a bunch of smaller maildirs instead of
> one big one, then have notmuch index those, and use mutt or vim with
> notmuch queries instead of having it read in a maildir.
Small Maildirs work great, but large ones fall over. I don't
think having a bunch of smaller Maildirs would help notmuch
since notmuch still needs to know each file path.
The only way I could see notmuch/Maildir working well is to keep
the overall number of messages relatively small.
One of my longer-term goals is to write a mairix-like tool in
Perl which works with public-inbox archives; but I barely have
enough time for public-inbox these days :<
mairix works with gzipped mboxes, which is great for large
archives; but the indexing falls over since it rewrites the
entire search index every time. SSDs have died as a result :<
> But I feel like I must be missing the solution that's obvious to
> everybody but me.
Nope, you're not alone :) There's not a lot of mail software
which can handle LKML-sized histories efficiently.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-07 3:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-16 19:06 [RFC] LKML Archive in Maildir Format Joey Pabalinas
2018-12-16 19:17 ` Joe Perches
2018-12-16 19:21 ` Joey Pabalinas
2018-12-16 19:55 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-12-16 21:55 ` Joey Pabalinas
2018-12-18 20:26 ` Jasper Spaans
2018-12-18 22:53 ` Joey Pabalinas
2018-12-16 19:46 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-12-16 19:53 ` Joey Pabalinas
2019-01-04 1:35 ` Eric Wong
2019-03-05 20:48 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-03-05 23:26 ` Eric Wong
2019-03-06 20:50 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-03-07 3:44 ` Eric Wong [this message]
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