Re: Re[2]: [Mediawiki-l] Why run rebuildlinks.php after database update?

On Dec 8, 2003, at 10:49, Freerk wrote:

Hello Mediawiki-l,

   thanks for the answer. I updated the database today (after the
   2003-12-08 update) like this:

cd ...htdocs/wikipedia wget http://download.wikipedia.org/archives/en/cur_table.sql.bz2

That'd be the December 3 dump off the old server. Try the new server, which should be at download.wikimedia.org (sigh...)

bzip2 -dc cur_table.sql.bz2 | mysql -u wikipedia -pmypassword wikipedia

  Was that right, that easy? Or do I have to delete the old cur
  table first? It seems it wasn't really updated. It took about 8
  minutes (athlon 2400+/512mb ddr) and there was no error message.

The first command in the dump deletes and recreates the cur table. Nothing is printed on success; if there were a problem then it would complain.

  When I now call pages from my local wikipedia mirror the most 

recent edits are still from november. I looked up a page that was edited on december 2 in wikipedia but on my local mirror only a version from november appeared. (In november I installed everything the first time). Also new entries are not accessable.

November when?

  I only want to serve the printable page (via mod_rewrite) so
  nobody ever will use the "What links here", "Related Pages" or
  something like that. I understood your answer, Brion, that way
  that under this circumstances I don't have to do a "php
  rebuildlinks.php". Or should I? Does it really take several
  hours?

1 hour 45 minutes on a 2GHz Opteron with lots and lots of memory.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)