Hi there, I'm relatively new to ht://Dig and did a successful install. However, to proceed, I'd like to get a better understanding about how the modules work together.
I'm especially interested in understanding "htmerge" in an installation with a single database. http://www.htdig.org/running.html says that "rundig" runs "htdig", then "htmerge": After setting up all the configuration files, you can build the required databases simply by running rundig. This script will run htdig first to build the initial database, then it runs htmerge to create a document index and word database from the files that were created by htdig. http://www.htdig.org/rundig.html correspondingly tells the same: It runs htdig first to build the initial database, then it runs htmerge to create a document index and word database from the files that were created by htdig. However, when I take a look at the current rundig script ... http://htdig.cvs.sourceforge.net/htdig/htdig/installdir/rundig?view=markup ... it can be clearly seen that rundig, in fact, does NOT run htmerge. So what's the point with htmerge? I don't have an idea what it's for! Which brings me to the list of files created by htdig. Judging from the htdig man page, it creates/updates ... db.docdb ("Stores data about each document (title, url, etc.)" db.words.db db.words.db_weakcmpr ("Record which documents each word occurs in") db.excerpts ("Stores start of each document to show context of matches") It does *not* mention the index file, db.docs.index. But when I look into my database directory after running htdig (but NOT running htmerge!), I'm seeing: -rw-rw-r-- 1 ironkyo ironkyo 663552 Jun 4 12:36 db.docdb -rw-rw-r-- 1 ironkyo ironkyo 90112 Jun 4 12:36 db.docs.index -rw-rw-r-- 1 ironkyo ironkyo 15425536 Jun 4 12:36 db.excerpts -rw-rw-r-- 1 ironkyo ironkyo 155675648 Jun 4 12:36 db.words.db -rw-rw-r-- 1 ironkyo ironkyo 16384 Jun 4 12:36 db.words.db_weakcmpr So obviously db.docs.index is up-to-date, too, even if it is the _htmerge_ man page which days: Htmerge is used to create a document index and word database from the files that were created by htdig. But obviously, htdig creates the index himself ... and running htmerge obviously doesn't do anything - all the database files and their timestamps simply don't change. So, once again, what's the point with htmerge? Thanks a lot for your help with understanding what's going on! Jonas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ ht://Dig general mailing list: <[email protected]> ht://Dig FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-general
