make search key= quite useless these days

[Greg Panula]

Gunnar Flygt wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 06:05:44AM -0600, Greg Panula wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> I don't know what you mean with the word "buggared" but whatever it
> is, this system is one of a lot of FreeBSD mashines showing the same
> result after having done cvsup of the ports tree.
> 
> It started a few weeks ago, when the pkg-message file disappeared
> from the ports directories. Any connection?
> >

buggared = fubar'd = hosed = wrong

Aye, missing pkg-message files could be the cause of your problems. 
Refresh your ports tree via cvsup and life should be good again.  I have
just refreshed my ports tree and I still get a useful 'Info' line when
using 'make search key='.

Here are the first few lines of the sup file I use for refreshing my
ports tree.
--------------------->8------------------
*default host=localhost
*default base=/usr/local/etc/sup
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=.
*default delete use-rel-suffix

#ports-all

# These are the individual collections that make up "po
# use these, be sure to comment out "ports-all" above.
ports-archivers
#ports-astro
ports-audio
ports-base
--------------------->8------------------
The important bits are:
*default release=cvs tag=.
and
ports-base

Then when I refresh I use the command 'cvsup -gL 2 ports-supfile'

greg