[NTLK] UNNA search broken?

Morgan Aldridge morgant at makkintosshu.com
Sun Oct 19 07:39:26 PDT 2025


On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 06:44 Matthias Melcher <m.melcher at robowerk.de>
wrote:

>
> From my side as well, thank you very much for maintaining the site. It is
> very very helpful for everyone!


Really, thanks to all of you for continuing to use it and submit files!

To add to Marks question: in my version of unna, I unpacked all .sit and
> similar archives and store the .pkg file in the same directory, and I
> reformatted all text file with the old style `CR` line ending with modern
> `LF`, so they are readable from within the browser.


That's also how I prefer to handle .sit, .zip, etc. files in the archives.
Since the UNNA.org descriptions are per-directory and include version
tagging, device/OS support, etc., I make a directory for each version.

I'd be happy to upload those changes if there is a way to do it without
> adding tons of work for you.


Let me ponder that for a bit as I don't have an immediate answer off the
top of my head.

As mentioned earlier, there is an SVN server. That's probably a lot _more_
work for you, does pose some risk to the existing data structure (more on
this below), plus would require me setting up credentials.

The risk for the data structure is not because I don't trust you or your
data, but because the descriptions in the database are cross referenced by
file/directory path and the upload/admin scripts update these on
move/rename operations. So, any moved/renamed files would need to be found
& updated separately, which could be quite a bit of work.

I do very much need to finish getting the mirrors syncing completed.

Lastly, I don't know how the pages are generated. Do you think it's
> possible to add a line in the `view.php` that looks at the file list, and
> if there is a file named `screenshot.png`, it would render that screenshot
> to the right of the files list? I can convince Einstein to generate
> screenshots somewhat automatically and upload those.


That's a great idea and something I've considered in the past, but never
implemented. It's certainly possible and I'll see if I can squeeze that in.

Thanks again for all you do!

Morgan


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