sup talk - Jun 2007 - error on loading a saved index

after my ~/.sup/sources.yaml was wiped out, i tried sup-adding all my
sources and running sup-sync --changed on them, but got the ferret error
again.

so i removed ~/.sup/ferret/* and started from scratch.  i built my index and
tried to restore its state with the sup-dump backup from the night before.
everything went well for a time, then it died with this error:

ruby -I lib -w bin/sup-sync --restored --restore sup-backup-2007-06-08-22:08:15

...
Scanning mbox:///home/jeff/mail/invoice at icgroup.com-2007-06...
Scanned 2, added 0, updated 2 messages from mbox:///home/jeff/mail/invoice at
icgroup.com-2007-06.
Restored state on 2 (100.00%) messages.
Scanning mbox:///home/jeff/mail/jchalmers at corp.sourceforge.com-2007-06...
Scanned 1, added 0, updated 1 messages from mbox:///home/jeff/mail/jchalmers at
corp.sourceforge.com-2007-06.
Restored state on 1 (100.00%) messages.
Scanning mbox:///home/jeff/mail/jeff.covey at pobox.com-2007-06...
[Sat Jun 09 11:05:59 -0400 2007] saving index and sources...
[Sat Jun 09 11:06:00 -0400 2007] unlocking /home/jeff/.sup/lock...
bin/sup-sync:152: undefined method `sort_by'' for nil:NilClass
(NoMethodError)
        from ./lib/sup/poll.rb:115:in `add_messages_from''
        from ./lib/sup/source.rb:91:in `each''
        from ./lib/sup/util.rb:349:in `send''
        from ./lib/sup/util.rb:349:in `__pass''
        from ./lib/sup/util.rb:338:in `method_missing''
        from ./lib/sup/poll.rb:95:in `add_messages_from''
        from ./lib/sup/util.rb:313:in `send''
        from ./lib/sup/util.rb:313:in `method_missing''
        from bin/sup-sync:133
        from bin/sup-sync:128:in `each''
        from bin/sup-sync:128


[so i had to find and manually label messages in sup which had labels in the
backup.  the bright side is that i''m getting good at writing scripts to
fix
sup when it falls down.  :)]

thanks,

-- 
jeff covey
http://jeffcovey.net/

Excerpts from Jeff Covey''s message of Sun Jun 10 11:12:56 -0700
2007:
> bin/sup-sync:152: undefined method `sort_by'' for nil:NilClass
(NoMethodError)
Fixed in SVN. Sorry about that.
> [so i had to find and manually label messages in sup which had labels
> in the backup.  the bright side is that i''m getting good at
writing
> scripts to fix sup when it falls down.  :)]
One small step away from hacking on Sup itself! :)

-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>