History API heads up

[greg andruk]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 05:07:12AM +0000, bill davidsen wrote:

> Alex Kiernan  <alexk at demon.net> wrote:
> 
> | - there are some user visible changes, principally makehistory now
> | generates the dbz files (again), hence supports the -s option,
> | grephistory loses the -h (hash a messageid) and -t (print offset into
> | history file) options, also inn.conf acquires a hismethod parameter
> | (which can only be hisv6 right now).
> 
> As long as we can rebuild dbz without rebuilding history.

makedbz is still there at the moment.

> Which is sort of why makedbz was pulled out in the first place, to be
> structured and have the accumulation of history data separate from the
> indexing.

makehistory -r used to do the same thing as makedbz, and that interface
might be nice to resurrect if there are going to be 57 varieties of history,
each with a different idea of what reindexing means.