user/dev discussion of public-inbox itself
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
Search results ordered by [date|relevance]  view[summary|nested|Atom feed]
thread overview below | download mbox.gz: |
* [PATCH 1/3] doc: extindex: document current behavior + knobs
  2021-11-03  8:34  7% [PATCH 0/3] doc: extindex-related updates Eric Wong
@ 2021-11-03  8:34  6% ` Eric Wong
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ results
From: Eric Wong @ 2021-11-03  8:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: meta

I'm not really sure if extindex writing to the config file
is a good idea (since -index doesn't, as -init exists).
Just document what it does and let the user handle it, since
the config file shouldn't be daunting to new users.
---
 Documentation/public-inbox-config.pod   | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/public-inbox-extindex.pod | 17 +++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/public-inbox-config.pod b/Documentation/public-inbox-config.pod
index a5bc67fd6328..43e54ed42d9d 100644
--- a/Documentation/public-inbox-config.pod
+++ b/Documentation/public-inbox-config.pod
@@ -358,6 +358,22 @@ more than once, in which case the values are merged.
 
 Default: none
 
+=item extindex.<name>.topdir
+
+The directory of an external index.  See
+L<public-inbox-extindex(1)> for more details.
+
+=item extindex.<name>.url
+
+Identical to L</publicinbox.E<lt>nameE<gt>.url>, but for
+external indices
+
+=item extindex.<name>.coderepo
+
+Identical to L</publicinbox.E<lt>nameE<gt>.coderepo>, but for
+external indices.  Code repos may be freely associated with
+any number of public inboxes and external indices.
+
 =back
 
 =head2 NAMED LIMITER (PSGI)
diff --git a/Documentation/public-inbox-extindex.pod b/Documentation/public-inbox-extindex.pod
index a0fca83c6255..9731dfb0d2a7 100644
--- a/Documentation/public-inbox-extindex.pod
+++ b/Documentation/public-inbox-extindex.pod
@@ -10,9 +10,6 @@ public-inbox-extindex [OPTIONS] [EXTINDEX_DIR] --all
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
-FIXME: behavior not finalized  It should probably write to the
-config file the first time --all is used.
-
 public-inbox-extindex creates and updates an external search and
 overview database used by the read-only public-inbox PSGI (HTTP),
 NNTP, and IMAP interfaces.  This requires either the
@@ -70,7 +67,19 @@ L<public-inbox-extindex-format(5)>
 
 =head1 CONFIGURATION
 
-... TODO, see L<public-inbox-index(5)>
+public-inbox-extindex does not currently write to the
+L<public-inbox-config(5)> file, configuration may be entered
+manually.  The extindex name of C<all> is a special case which
+corresponds to indexing C<--all> inboxes.  An example for
+C<--all> is as follows:
+
+	[extindex "all"]
+		topdir = /path/to/extindex_dir
+		url = all
+		coderepo = foo
+		coderepo = bar
+
+See L<public-inbox-config(5)> for more details.
 
 =head1 ENVIRONMENT
 

^ permalink raw reply related	[relevance 6%]

* [PATCH 0/3] doc: extindex-related updates
@ 2021-11-03  8:34  7% Eric Wong
  2021-11-03  8:34  6% ` [PATCH 1/3] doc: extindex: document current behavior + knobs Eric Wong
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ results
From: Eric Wong @ 2021-11-03  8:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: meta

I forgot some things :x

Eric Wong (3):
  doc: extindex: document current behavior + knobs
  doc: -clone|lei add-external: add bit about the Makefile
  doc: relnotes: 1.7.0: move extindex, note search results change

 Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip       | 20 +++++++++++---------
 Documentation/lei-add-external.pod      |  2 ++
 Documentation/public-inbox-clone.pod    |  5 +++++
 Documentation/public-inbox-config.pod   | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/public-inbox-extindex.pod | 17 +++++++++++++----
 5 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

^ permalink raw reply	[relevance 7%]

Results 1-2 of 2 | reverse | options above
-- pct% links below jump to the message on this page, permalinks otherwise --
2021-11-03  8:34  7% [PATCH 0/3] doc: extindex-related updates Eric Wong
2021-11-03  8:34  6% ` [PATCH 1/3] doc: extindex: document current behavior + knobs Eric Wong

Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://80x24.org/public-inbox.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).