devballs & database upgrading

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

I noticed that there is some confusion about what update_lkb.sh and
update_lbf.sh really do.  This email will explain!

Basically, via cron, a script runs that dumps the SQL databases for
linuxkb and LBF and gzip's them up and makes it available via the web.  In
the past it ran once a day (at midnight).  Now it runs 1/hour.  In the
future, I'll go back to 1/day and have a web page that people can use to
do the update manually.

the update scripts, download this dump with lynx and then reload the local
DB from scratch.  Note that the script downloads the cron generated dump,
so it may be out of date.  This I figured was a fair tradeoff for the
ability to compress the database before sending it over the wire- not
everyone has DSL/cable modem/T1's at home.

Also a little advice when you see something working on dev and not your
local system.  Usually this can be attributed to one of 4 things:

Your devball is out of date.
Your CVS image is out of date.
Your database is out of date.
Apache needs to be restarted for changes to modperl to have effect.

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