Make search dead in ports?
Mark Rowlands
mark.rowlands at mypost.se
Sun Nov 28 14:44:12 PST 2004
> -----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
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