When a local port indexfile is not found, any searches in the main repo fail

[deorth@…]

This may be a dupe ticket, apologies if it is but I couldn't see anything obvious in the trac search and I'm not very good at it. :)

If for some reason a portindex is missing from my local repo, I get this behaviour :

$ sudo port install mtr
Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider using selfupdate
Warning: Can't open index file for source: file:///Users/ahorn/mydev/ahorn/macports
Error: Port mtr not found

$ port search mtr
Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider using selfupdate
mtr @0.80 (net)
    'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single tool

So, found in a search operation but not an install operation. Presumably because error status from the attempt to open the index file is dictating whether or not ports thinks it can find/install mtr. Possibly bailing at the first portindex failure ? not sure.

Anyway, rebuilding that portindex file and it then works as expected.

$ cd ~ahorn/mydev/ahorn/macports
$ portindex
...
<snip>
...
Total number of ports parsed:	18 
etc...

Then :

$ sudo port install mtr
Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider using selfupdate
--->  Fetching mtr
--->  Attempting to fetch mtr-0.80.tar.gz from http://distfiles.macports.org/mtr
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for mtr
etc..

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Have you already tested whether MacPorts 2.0.1 still has this issue?

[deorth@…]

Seems to have the identical issue

[kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)]

Patch to fix this issue

[kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)]

Cc Me!

[kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)]

The patch appears to fix this issue. If the portindex is not found, it tries using mportsearch. I wasn't sure if a warning about re-generating the portindex file should be added.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Attached patch doesn't actually fix the real problem.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

r92976