Make search dead in ports?

[Mark Rowlands]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:kris at obsecurity.org] 
> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 11:29 PM
> To: Mark Rowlands
> Cc: Kris Kennaway; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Make search dead in ports?
> 
> 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


That works fine