Re: "Python 37/38 conflict, was Re: Trubles compiling lxqt on RPi4" [really: list interface replacement generates bad textual content]

On 2021-May-18, at 00:03, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> On 2021-May-17, at 23:55, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2021-May-17, at 23:37, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 18 mai 2021 06:50:03 Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>:
>>> 
>>>> On 2021-May-15, at 22:22, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 16 mai 2021 05:29:07 Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> In exploring I've seen various web-page presentation of
>>>>>> freebsd-bugs messages that seem to be messed up. An
>>>>>> example is:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> . . .
>>>>> 
>>>>> Nice catch, I will fix it
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The extra text disappeared when I later looked at the
>>>> pages via the URLs.
>>>> 
>>>> But I've run into another oddity. I did a google
>>>> search for:
>>>> 
>>>> "Comparing the OverDrive 1000 (A57) vs. MACCHIATObin"
>>>> 
>>>> and then used the 1st link shown, the one from the text:
>>>> 
>>>> QUOTE
>>>> https://lists.freebsd.org › freebsd-arm › 2019-December
>>>> Comparing the OverDrive 1000 (A57) vs. MACCHIATObin ...
>>>> Dec 2, 2019 — Comparing the OverDrive 1000 (A57) vs. MACCHIATObin Double Shot (A72) for buildworld and via a CPU/cache/RAM tradeoff-exploring ...
>>>> END QUOTE
>>>> 
>>>> which has the link (it is for one of my old messages):
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiPhp3OtdLwAhVH6Z4KHaXQC68QFjAAegQIAxAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.freebsd.org%2Fpipermail%2Ffreebsd-arm%2F2019-December%2F020854.html&usg=AOvVaw2VHrNUGc-Vce4CjAmTufxq
>>>> 
>>>> Or, extracting/converting the relevant part of that text:
>>>> 
>>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2019-December/020854.html
>>>> 
>>>> This now takes me to the wrong message on the list, one titled:
>>>> 
>>>> Re: 64 bit ARM systems with more than four cores Ed Maste
>>>> 
>>>> Turns out that the my old message now shows up as 2 later
>>>> by number (020854 -> 020856):
>>>> 
>>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2019-December/020856.html
>>>> 
>>>> gets to the message with the correct title.
>>>> 
>>>> It appears that the numbering has not been preserved
>>>> in the conversion. This can make google search results
>>>> that point into the (older) freebsd lists
>>>> problematical.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ===
>>>> Mark Millard
>>>> marklmi at yahoo.com
>>>> ( dsl-only.net went
>>>> away in early 2018-Mar)
>>> 
>>> 99.9% of the tume the numbering is preserved, sometimes it is not given the weirdness of the things that happened in the past. i will dig into this specific case to see what I can do. But don t expect much here.
>>> 
>> 
>> FYI:
>> 
>> In my "binary search inspired" looking around everything
>> I looked at that was old but more recent than 2014-Dec-23
>> had the offset of 2. Everything older than 2014-Dec-10
>> worked. Those dates are as close together as I got.
>> 
>> (Finding things that have useful google search matches in
>> a time frame is messy so the results are limited. It
>> would be nice to find a better way to looking up old
>> references.)
>> 
>> Example:
>> 
>> "lsof on FreeBSD/arm" goggle search click through to page
>> 
>> vs.:
>> 
>> Tuesday, 23 December 2014
>> . . . 
>> 	• Re: lsof on FreeBSD/arm Larry Rosenman 
>> 	• [Differential] [Commented On] D1317: Build gperf as a dependency before gcc for arm releases emaste (Ed Maste) 
>> 	• [Differential] [Updated, 8 lines] D1317: Build gperf as a dependency before gcc for arm releases emaste (Ed Maste) 
>> 
>> It gets on to the message for last line (still off by two for the
>> number, like what I reported already):
>> 
>> By contrast:
>> 
>> "watchdogd not working anymore (since r273154+)" google search click through
>> 
>> vs.:
>> 
>> Wednesday, 10 December 2014
>> . . .
>> 	• Re: RPi - watchdogd not working anymore (since r273154+) Andreas Schwarz 
>> 
>> worked.
> 
> A different possible oddity that I just noticed is that
> the old system used UTC dates/times, such as:
> 
> Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com 
> Sat May 1 19:50:18 UTC 2021
> 
> (from freebsd-git).
> 
> But the new one uses various time zones (the
> senders time zone?), such as:
> 
> From: Mark Millard via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm_at_freebsd.org> 
> Date: Sat, 15 May 2021 14:43:45 -0700
> 
> (from freebsd-arm).
> 

Well . . .

freebsd-arm's messages have a UTC time after the message, such as:

Received on Sat May 15 2021 - 21:43:45 UTC

so both time zones are available. It might be deliberate.


===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
( dsl-only.net went
away in early 2018-Mar)