> On 3 Jun 2016, at 7:23 pm, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 1, 2016, at 10:21, Ryan Williamson <ryan_d_william...@yahoo.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm a fairly new user of MacPorts, so if this is a stupid question, please 
>> excuse the newbie in the room.
>> 
>> On Friday of last week I had the list of available ports pulled up in the 
>> 'amusements' category.
>> https://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=category&substr=amusements
>> 
>> On that day there were "tons" (yes - a very technical term) of different 
>> ports listed, but today, I see only 2.
>> I know that for example, "agree", "chef", and "cowsay" were all listed, but 
>> those are gone now.
>> 
>> Does that Ports list get updated from time to time?
>> 
>> The page also says:
>> 
>> "The MacPorts Project currently distributes 10812 ports, organized across 73 
>> different categories and available below for viewing. This form allows you 
>> to search the MacPorts software index, last updated on (unknown) at 
>> (unknown)."
>> 
>> Below the search by box is a link to view the complete port list.
>> Follow that link and it now says:
>> 
>> "The MacPorts Project currently distributes 20825 ports, organized across 83 
>> different categories and available below for viewing. This form allows you 
>> to search the MacPorts software index, last updated on 2016-05-31 at 
>> 09:00:32 America/Los_Angeles."
>> 
>> So, it does indeed appear that the list was just updated, but why the 
>> difference (10K vs 20K)
>> 
>> I do see that "agree", "chef", and "cowsay" are all listed in the 
>> TracBrowser under textproc
>> https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports?order=name#textproc
>> 
>> They still don't show up in the available ports list:
>> https://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=category&substr=textproc (note 
>> textproc)
>> 
>> Thanks for helping out a rookie.
> 
> Not your fault. A change was committed that was not compatible with the 
> currently released version of MacPorts, which broke the import script that 
> populates the database the web site uses. I've fixed it:
> 
> https://trac.macports.org/changeset/149165
> 
> It may take a few hours for the old versions of the pages to fall out of the 
> cache. 


Don't the following two lines, 33 and 34, need commenting out as well ?

> 
> -Ryan
> 
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