From d26298d9fcf518ff46b83d97f09ecb46fe6f4e9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rob Austein Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:38:44 +0000 Subject: Updated notes --- README | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index c008a9f..860cc71 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -6,6 +6,15 @@ fetching the HTML: wget -r --user=sra@hactrn.net --ask-password https://permatrac.noc.ietf.org/wiki/ +Slightly better recipe: + + wget -m -R '*[?]*' --user=sra@hactrn.net --ask-password https://permatrac.noc.ietf.org/wiki/ + +But either way, `wget` seems to be non-terminating when walking this +site, even if it throws away .999 of what it retrieves. In theory, +adding `-np` would have fixed this; in practice doing so causes it not +to recurse at all. Grrr. + Scripts from rpki.net/doc/*/*.{sh,py,xsl}, included here under tools/. The other approach is converting Trac wiki directly to markdown. @@ -15,3 +24,7 @@ There are hacks for this, in Ruby: But there are also Python versions, which are a bit more tractible. Several of them included in tools/ too. + + +The most promising approach looks to be `tools/trac2md.py`, which is a +bit crude but is written in a relatively sane style so should be fixable. -- cgit v1.2.3