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* [PATCH 2/3] wwwtext: show altid instructions in config
  2020-03-26  8:21  6% [PATCH 0/3] wwwaltid: add pointers for usability Eric Wong
@ 2020-03-26  8:21  7% ` Eric Wong
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ results
From: Eric Wong @ 2020-03-26  8:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: meta

Exposing altid dumps will help and ensure total reproducibility
of existing instances.

AFAIK, sqlite3(1) can't execute arbitrary code, so it's not
quite as fashionable as the "curl | bash" stuff the cool people
are doing, these days :P
---
 lib/PublicInbox/WwwText.pm | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/WwwText.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/WwwText.pm
index cbe82b73..2008ba09 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/WwwText.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/WwwText.pm
@@ -138,15 +138,16 @@ sub inbox_config ($$$) {
 	my $ibx = $ctx->{-inbox};
 	push @$hdr, 'Content-Disposition', 'inline; filename=inbox.config';
 	my $name = dq_escape($ibx->{name});
+	my $inboxdir = '/path/to/top-level-inbox';
 	$$txt .= <<EOS;
 ; example public-inbox config snippet for "$name"
 ; see public-inbox-config(5) manpage for more details:
 ; https://public-inbox.org/public-inbox-config.html
 [publicinbox "$name"]
-	inboxdir = /path/to/top-level-inbox
+	inboxdir = $inboxdir
 	; note: public-inbox before v1.2.0 used "mainrepo"
 	; instead of "inboxdir", both remain supported after 1.2
-	mainrepo = /path/to/top-level-inbox
+	mainrepo = $inboxdir
 	url = https://example.com/$name/
 	url = http://example.onion/$name/
 EOS
@@ -154,6 +155,21 @@ EOS
 		defined(my $v = $ibx->{$k}) or next;
 		$$txt .= "\t$k = $_\n" for @$v;
 	}
+	if (my $altid = $ibx->{altid}) {
+		my $base_url = $ibx->base_url($ctx->{env});
+		my $altid_map = $ibx->altid_map;
+		$$txt .= <<EOF;
+	; altid DBs may be used to provide numeric article ID lookup from
+	; old, pre-existing sources.  You can recreate them via curl(1),
+	; gzip(1), and sqlite3(1) as documented:
+EOF
+		for (sort keys %$altid_map) {
+			$$txt .= "\t;\tcurl -XPOST $base_url$_.sql.gz | \\\n" .
+				"\t;\tgzip -dc | \\\n" .
+				"\t;\tsqlite3 $inboxdir/$_.sqlite3\n";
+			$$txt .= "\taltid = serial:$_:file=$_.sqlite3\n";
+		}
+	}
 
 	for my $k (qw(filter newsgroup obfuscate replyto watchheader)) {
 		defined(my $v = $ibx->{$k}) or next;

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* [PATCH 0/3] wwwaltid: add pointers for usability
@ 2020-03-26  8:21  6% Eric Wong
  2020-03-26  8:21  7% ` [PATCH 2/3] wwwtext: show altid instructions in config Eric Wong
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ results
From: Eric Wong @ 2020-03-26  8:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: meta

Provide helpful hints and pointers in existing config example
to reproduce altid DBs when mirroring

Eric Wong (3):
  inbox: altid_map becomes a method
  wwwtext: show altid instructions in config
  wwwaltid: inform users to use POST instead of GET

 lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm    | 15 +++++++++++++++
 lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm      |  3 +++
 lib/PublicInbox/WwwAltId.pm | 32 ++++++++++++++++++--------------
 lib/PublicInbox/WwwText.pm  | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 4 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)


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