[Wp-mirror-list] Fwd: Attempting to Mirror en

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From: Benjamin Goldsmith <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:35:36 -0400
Subject: RE: Attempting to Mirror en
To: wp mirror <address@hidden>

Dear Kent,

I'm excited to read about your progress regarding moving wp-mirror to Wheezy.

Regarding some of your points:

1.3)  Though the --gui option is really pretty and a value add, as
long as the --text option works all is good IMO.  Obviously, if you
can hurdle that issue please do it.  I just know that when I remote
into a server I tend to use the console and the --text option and the
tail -f /var/log/wp-mirror.log command are what I use.

1.4) I too noticed innodb is now built in and the default in mysql 5.5.

I personally would have made use of a --restore-defaults option during
some of my work with wp-mirror.  That said, I would put a warning in
the usage statement about the scorched earth nature of the option.

1.7) I've noticed issues when wp-mirror 0.3 runs the mediawiki
maintenance scripts if I don't revert LocalSettings.php to not include
the LocalSettings_wpmirror.php code.  LocalSettings_wpmirror.php may
need some way to detect if it's being accessed from apache or being
used by a maintenance script.

2) I went ahead and dropped both the enwiki and wpmirror databases to
start from ground zero.  Everything ran fine, but I'm still left with
an enwiki.pages table with only 1 row.  I haven't looked into it
further.  I'm wondering if turning off the image download and image
verify flags is causing a problem.

Continued good luck on your progress.

Best,
-Ben