Make search dead in ports?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:16:13PM +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 10:47:58AM +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote:
> > > > > Sometime ....fairly recently, make search in  ports 
> > stopped working.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I have installed sysutils/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex-1.1 so I
> > > > suspected this
> > > > > was the villain but after removing INDEX and INDEX.db and
> > > > doing a make
> > > > > index and portsdb -Uu make search still doesnt work.
> > > > 
> > > > "Doesn't work" isn't a helpful description of the error.
> > > > 
> > > > Kris
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > That's true...sorry...stupid hat was on
> > > 
> > > zero result...no error...... 
> > 
> > Can you do a 'ls -l /usr/ports/INDEX*' for me?
> > 
> > Kris
> 
> Haha...you suspect I may be an idiot  ;-).......
> S'ok...it's not the first time......and I suspect not entirely
> grounded in fiction
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   6296046 Nov 28 05:37 /usr/ports/INDEX
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  13681664 Nov 28 05:43 /usr/ports/INDEX.db
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  13650944 Nov 26 05:22 /usr/ports/INDEX.db.old
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   6278054 Nov 26 05:21 /usr/ports/INDEX.old
> 
> Other factors that may be of interest.  Same problem does not occur
> on  my 5.3 machine :-  cvsupped today and installed p5-portindex. 
> Make search works, Deleted INDEX* did a make index and portsdb -uU
> and make search works.
> 
> Could it be related to which version of DB is in effect?....
> (blind guesswork)

Does it work if you use 'make fetchindex' to get a pristine index?

Kris
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