Need help setting up Patchwork

[Jeremy Kerr]

Hi Deen,

> Hi Jeremy,
> 
>   Thanks for your reply.  I ran patchwork on Virtualbox Ubuntu guest.  I
> 
> don't know why I got the error "unable to execute
> /srv/patchwork/apps/patchwork/bin/parsemail.sh: No such file or
> directory".
> 
>   I can execute the parsemail.sh if I boot into Ubuntu.

So it works if you boot directly to Ubuntu, but not if you boot Ubuntu as a 
virtual machine?

> However, when I run it against the email archived it retured "no project
> found".  I notice that that it doesn't contain mailinglist (List-ID) value. 

Yes, patchwork needs a List-Id (or X-Mailing-List) header to determine which 
project an email is for. If the mbox you have is from a mailing list, it 
should have one of these headers. You will need to check that the settings for 
the project (in the patchwork /admin/ interface) have the matching list-id 
setting.

For example, the List-Id headers on the patchwork mailing list are:

 List-Id: Patchwork development <patchwork.lists.ozlabs.org>

So the setting for this project in the admin interface is:

 patchwork.lists.ozlabs.org

If your file does not have List-Id headers, you can use formail to add them:

 formail -i 'List-Id: My project <bar.foo.com>' < old.mbox > new.mbox

> Does this mean that the parsemail.sh only work on the mbox format?
> Does parsemail.sh assume one email per file?  I create a file and
> manually copy mbox text from an email account that I subscribe to a mailing
> list.
> 
> Parsemail.sh works on the first email only.  Would it be useful if I try
> to add code so that it support multiple email one file?

parsemail.py expects one email on its input.

However, you can use formail to execute the parser on each mail of a multiple-
mail mbox file:

 formail -s /srv/patchwork/apps/patchwork/bin/parsemail.sh < your-file.mbox

>   I saw the parsemail-batch.sh, but it seems to require one email per
>   file because it uses the parsemail.py.

This is for importing a maildir-style directory of single-mail files

Cheers,


Jeremy