[Resolved?] Re: ovsqlite - bug?

[Russ Allbery]

Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> writes:

> I don't think you should bother.
> You won't be able to make your history file consistent with your
> self-expiring CNFS buffers.  I bet the articles have already expired 
> from your current overview.  They are just still here in the buffer, just
> waiting for being overwritten by the next cycle.

> What happens is that makehistory parses your spool and finds these old
> articles.  It generates overview entries for them.
> Tomorrow, after the run of expireover (by news.daily), your overview date
> will be purged of these entries.

There's some sort of deeper bug here, though, since we shouldn't have two
copies of the same group and article number pair.  I'm not entirely sure
*where* the duplicate is... the history file, perhaps?  It's the same
storage token for both copies of the article, so it doesn't seem to be
duplicated in CNFS.  But I'm also not sure how duplicates managed to be
written to the history file.

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