[Xapian-discuss] "re-rooting" omindex-generated index files: possible?

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Sun Jul 24 02:16:33 BST 2011


On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 10:25:24AM +0530, Charles wrote:
> Is it possible to change the directory that a set of omindex-generated
> index files refer to?

Trivially, since there are no absolute references to the root directory
stored in the Xapian database Omega generates, only references
relative to the root directory.

> [...]
> but all the index data would refer to /srv/docoll.new.

It shouldn't.  Do you have reasons to think otherwise?

Cheers,
    Olly



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