make search key= quite useless these days

[Greg Panula]

Gunnar Flygt wrote:
> 
> What are we supposed to use for information on ports nowadays,
> since the port info has been taken away and more and more of
> the `make search key=anything` gives a result like:
> 
> Port:   xsmbrowser-3.3.0
> Path:   /usr/ports/net/xsmbrowser
> Info:   ** No Description
> Maint:  roman at xpert.com
> Index:  net
> B-deps:
> R-deps: XFree86-libraries-4.2.1_7 cups-base-1.1.18.0_4 expect-5.38.0_1 freetype2
> -2.1.3_1 imake-4.2.0_1 jpeg-6b_1 png-1.2.5_2 samba-2.2.7a tcl-8.3.5 tiff-3.5.7 t
> k-8.3.5
> 
> Port:   smb2www-0.0.980804_1
> Path:   /usr/ports/www/smb2www
> Info:   ** No Description
> Maint:  roman at xpert.com
> Index:  www
> B-deps:
> R-deps: apache-1.3.27_4 cups-base-1.1.18.0_4 expat-1.95.6_1 jpeg-6b_1 p5-MIME-Ba
> se64-2.16 png-1.2.5_2 samba-2.2.7a tiff-3.5.7
> 
> Not much help there!
> 

Hmmmm, maybe something is buggared on your end?

Here are my results for the above searches....

[net-mgmt]:[/usr/ports]:>make search key=xsmbrowser
Port:   xsmbrowser-3.3.0
Path:   /usr/ports/net/xsmbrowser
Info:   Tcl/Tk port of Windows' Network Neighborhood
Maint:  roman at xpert.com
Index:  net
B-deps:
R-deps: XFree86-libraries-4.2.1_6 cups-base-1.1.18.0_4 expect-5.38.0_1
freetype2-2.1.3_1 imake-4.2.0_1 jpeg-6b_1 png-1.2.5_1 samba-2.2.7a
tcl-8.3.5 tiff-3.5.7 tk-8.3.5

[net-mgmt]:[/usr/ports]:>make search key=smb2www
Port:   smb2www-0.0.980804_1
Path:   /usr/ports/www/smb2www
Info:   Windows Network client that is accessible through a web browser
Maint:  roman at xpert.com
Index:  www
B-deps:
R-deps: apache-1.3.27_1 cups-base-1.1.18.0_4 jpeg-6b_1
p5-MIME-Base64-2.16 png-1.2.5_1 samba-2.2.7a tiff-3.5.7

Maybe try refreshing your ports tree?

greg