Earlier I wrote... > According to Greg Fenton: ... > > Now, nowhere else in the script is anything done with the .index file. > > > > So, does this line need to be uncommented? > > Should this be a "cp" instead of a "mv"? > > As the comment says, since "these are only used by htdig for update digs > and we always use -a, we just leave them as .work". So, unless you plan > to run htdig without -a, you shouldn't need the non-.work version. At > least, according to the attrs.html documentation for this snapshot, the > doc_index attribute is used only by htdig. > > However, in looking at the source code, I do see a discrepancy there. > It seems there are references to doc_index all over the place, in > htdig, htload, htmerge, and htpurge (which all make sense to me), but > also in htdump, htstat and htsearch (which doesn't make sense to me). > > Geoff, would you care to comment? Why do these programs which purportedly > don't need db.docs.index, or at least shouldn't need it, still seem to > require it. Is there a problem with the way the DB handling code is > structured right now that requires us to open the index even if we don't > use it?
OK, I've confirmed by running htsearch that this is indeed a problem. If you run htsearch without moving db.docs.index.work to db.docs.index, or copying it, htsearch complains: Unable to read document index file '/var/lib/htdig/db.docs.index' Did you run htdig? So, htsearch won't run without access to a file it ought not to need, and which the documentation claims it doesn't use. Is there an easy fix to this? -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
