Re: grokmirror and pi-piper for all emails on a list

[Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>]

On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 12:38 PM Konstantin Ryabitsev
<konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 12:14:56PM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > Dearly super-duper admins,
> >
> > I just read for the first time:
> >
> > https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/subscribing-to-lore-lists-with-grokmirror
> >
> > And I am extremely excited. After trying it, it seems to work great!
> > Just one thing, say I want to actually get all emails on the archive
> > to be run through .procmail, how do I do that? So that it would seem I
> > subscribed to a mailing list from the very beginning? It would be cool
> > if I could do that per mailing list. For instance, I want to enable
> > that for all my mailing lists except lkml.
>
> In each repository, you will find a file called pi-piper.latest. If you set it
> to the hash of the very first commit, the next run of pi-piper will replay all
> of the messages (may take ages, you've been warned).

Groovyness!

> Note, that if you
> configured pi-piper to reshallow the repository, you will need to unshallow it
> first (see the article you linked above).

OK so do you mean that if I'm starting from scratch I should use the
shallow setting or make sure to not use it?

> Also of note is that the upcoming "lei" tool from public-inbox is going to be
> a much more robust approach to doing what pi-piper does. I really wrote it
> mostly so we could feed lore lists into patchwork. :)

Whoa, ok so, before I go on raving about this, I should wait instead
and rave about lei later?

  Luis