Developers of Sympa

[Olivier Salaun <address@concealed>]

Petr Prazak wrote:
> 
>   I'm switching to Sympa from Majordomo, and I wanted to convert the
>   list archives to Sympa.
> 
>   I have created a simple script to convert the Mj archive files to
>   the Sympa rfc934 log files.

Maybe we could add this script to Sympa contribs, or adapt arc2webarc.pl
to
recognize Mj archives format.

>   Then I wanted to recreate the web archives and I found a few problems
>   with the Sympa scripts.
> 
>   1. The arc2webarc.pl script is missing few lines so it fails
>   everytime, I assume it is quite old and the Sympa internals
>   have changed since then. The attached patch will fix it.

I've applied your patch to dev tree.

>   2. The archived.pl runs the mhonarc via system function.
>   (Un)fortunately, I have lists, which have non-letter characters in
>   its names, like 'motobike-cz'. The mhonarc fails silently when the
>   rebuilding of the archive for such a list. Therefore the list
>   parameter must be escaped by apostrophes. I have also added a simple
>   logging if the command fails. The patch is attached.

Strangly we never noticed this bug, but I was able to reproduce it on
our
server. Your corrections are in CVS now.

>   3. The submodules are referring to the hash $main::options, so all
>   main modules should define the hash %options to keep Perl happy.

Ok.

Thanks for your contributions.

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Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseaux des Universités