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BugFix Release NoseRub 0.8.1

I just had to make this BugFixing Release of NoseRub, as there is a severe error in the 0.8 Release, when you use the cron jobs to refresh your feeds.

I know that this is a major incident, but as NoseRub only fetches RSS-Feeds, there is a good chance that most of the entries can be recovered. Please do the following things in order to update NoseRub and remove the defect entries:

1. Updgrade your NoseRub installation to the 0.8.1 Release (you can also svn update from the trunk)
2. Search the entries table of your NoseRub database for values in the field url that are obvious wrong. On Identoo.com, the URLs looked like http://identoo.com/var/www/identoo/noserub/entry/321
3. If you don’t find those, your NoseRub installation does not suffer from that bug. When in doubt, ask us for help.
4. Run DELETE FROM entries WHERE url LIKE “%select_a_pattern_here%” against your database. In most cases, you will use tools like phpMyAdmin for this. select_a_pattern_here means that you should select a part of the defect urls you found, so that no correct url would match it. It would be a very bad idea to use “http://” as pattern. I used “/var/www/identoo/noserub” as pattern. Ask us for help, if you are unsure about what you are doing! It could happen, that you delete all the entries in the database!
5. When all the entries with defect urls are removed, you’re done. The next refresh of all the feeds will re-fill most of the entries that you just deleted.

Sorry for the hassle. And again: when in doubt, ask us for help.