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-rw-r--r--INSTALL2
-rw-r--r--TODO2
-rwxr-xr-xci/deps.perl7
-rwxr-xr-xci/profiles.sh3
-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm19
-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/Search.pm84
-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/SearchIdx.pm50
-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm7
-rwxr-xr-xscript/public-inbox-index25
-rwxr-xr-xscript/public-inbox-init1
-rwxr-xr-xscript/public-inbox-purge5
-rw-r--r--t/admin.t2
-rw-r--r--t/cgi.t16
-rw-r--r--t/indexlevels-mirror.t17
-rw-r--r--t/nntp.t2
-rw-r--r--t/nntpd.t15
-rw-r--r--t/over.t3
-rw-r--r--t/psgi_bad_mids.t3
-rw-r--r--t/psgi_scan_all.t4
-rw-r--r--t/psgi_search.t4
-rw-r--r--t/purge.t2
-rw-r--r--t/search-thr-index.t5
-rw-r--r--t/search.t7
-rw-r--r--t/v1reindex.t3
-rw-r--r--t/v2reindex.t5
-rw-r--r--t/watch_maildir_v2.t4
26 files changed, 184 insertions, 113 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 313a2951..72e0763c 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Numerous optional modules are likely to be useful as well:
 - Search::Xapian                   deb: libsearch-xapian-perl
                                    pkg: p5-Search-Xapian
                                    rpm: perl-Search-Xapian
-                                   (for v2, HTTP search)
+                                   (HTTP search)
 
 - Net::Server                      deb: libnet-server-perl
                                    pkg: pkg-Net-Server
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index d947b0ff..4953439e 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -69,8 +69,6 @@ all need to be considered for everything we introduce)
 
 * large mbox/Maildir/MH/NNTP spool import (see PublicInbox::Import)
 
-* Allow NNTP and more of PSGI code to work without Xapian
-
 * Read-only WebDAV interface to the git repo so it can be mounted
   via davfs2 or fusedav to avoid full clones.
   davfs2 needs Range: request support for this to be feasible:
diff --git a/ci/deps.perl b/ci/deps.perl
index e0fda011..32b0226e 100755
--- a/ci/deps.perl
+++ b/ci/deps.perl
@@ -70,12 +70,7 @@ if (@precious) {
 
 
 # bare minimum for v2
-$profiles->{v2essential} = [ @{$profiles->{essential}}, qw(
-        DBD::SQLite
-        DBI
-        Search::Xapian
-        xapian-compact
-) ];
+$profiles->{v2essential} = [ @{$profiles->{essential}}, qw(DBD::SQLite DBI) ];
 
 # package names which can't be mapped automatically:
 my $non_auto = {
diff --git a/ci/profiles.sh b/ci/profiles.sh
index 31140f35..5d7c2cf6 100755
--- a/ci/profiles.sh
+++ b/ci/profiles.sh
@@ -62,8 +62,9 @@ essential devtest-
 EOF
         ;;
 debian-sid|debian-9|debian-10) sed "s/^/$PKG_FMT /" <<EOF
-all devtest-
 all devtest
+all devtest Search::Xapian-
+all devtest-
 v2essential
 essential
 essential devtest-
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm
index dc186b73..813ed997 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ sub cleanup_task () {
         my $next = {};
         for my $ibx (values %$CLEANUP) {
                 my $again;
-                foreach my $f (qw(mm search)) {
+                foreach my $f (qw(mm search over)) {
                         delete $ibx->{$f} if SvREFCNT($ibx->{$f}) == 1;
                 }
                 my $expire = time - 60;
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ sub cleanup_task () {
                                 $again = 1 if $git->cleanup($expire);
                         }
                 }
-                $again ||= !!($ibx->{mm} || $ibx->{search});
+                $again ||= !!($ibx->{over} || $ibx->{mm} || $ibx->{search});
                 $next->{"$ibx"} = $ibx if $again;
         }
         $CLEANUP = $next;
@@ -175,14 +175,17 @@ sub search ($;$) {
                 require PublicInbox::Search;
                 PublicInbox::Search->new($self, $self->{altid});
         };
-        # TODO: lazily load Xapian
-        # return $srch if $over_only || eval { $srch->xdb };
-        # undef;
+        ($over_only || eval { $srch->xdb }) ? $srch : undef;
 }
 
 sub over ($) {
-        my $srch = search($_[0], 1) or return;
-        $srch->{over_ro};
+        my ($self) = @_;
+        my $srch = search($self, 1) or return;
+        $self->{over} ||= eval {
+                my $over = $srch->{over_ro};
+                $over->dbh_new; # may fail
+                $over;
+        }
 }
 
 sub try_cat {
@@ -290,7 +293,7 @@ sub nntp_url {
 sub nntp_usable {
         my ($self) = @_;
         my $ret = mm($self) && over($self);
-        $self->{mm} = $self->{search} = undef;
+        $self->{mm} = $self->{over} = $self->{search} = undef;
         $ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Search.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Search.pm
index e79ec0f8..b1e62f4c 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Search.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Search.pm
@@ -12,11 +12,21 @@ use constant TS => 0;  # Received: header in Unix time
 use constant YYYYMMDD => 1; # Date: header for searching in the WWW UI
 use constant DT => 2; # Date: YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
 
-use Search::Xapian qw/:standard/;
 use PublicInbox::SearchMsg;
 use PublicInbox::MIME;
 use PublicInbox::MID qw/id_compress/;
 use PublicInbox::Over;
+my $QP_FLAGS;
+sub load_xapian () {
+        $QP_FLAGS ||= eval {
+                require Search::Xapian;
+                Search::Xapian->import(qw(:standard));
+
+                # n.b. FLAG_PURE_NOT is expensive not suitable for a public
+                # website as it could become a denial-of-service vector
+                FLAG_PHRASE()|FLAG_BOOLEAN()|FLAG_LOVEHATE()|FLAG_WILDCARD();
+        };
+};
 
 # This is English-only, everything else is non-standard and may be confused as
 # a prefix common in patch emails
@@ -41,10 +51,6 @@ use constant {
         #      (commit 83425ef12e4b65cdcecd11ddcb38175d4a91d5a0)
         # 14 - fix ghost root vivification
         SCHEMA_VERSION => 15,
-
-        # n.b. FLAG_PURE_NOT is expensive not suitable for a public website
-        # as it could become a denial-of-service vector
-        QP_FLAGS => FLAG_PHRASE|FLAG_BOOLEAN|FLAG_LOVEHATE|FLAG_WILDCARD,
 };
 
 my %bool_pfx_external = (
@@ -113,18 +119,43 @@ EOF
 );
 chomp @HELP;
 
-sub xdir {
-        my ($self) = @_;
+sub xdir ($;$) {
+        my ($self, $rdonly) = @_;
         if ($self->{version} == 1) {
                 "$self->{mainrepo}/public-inbox/xapian" . SCHEMA_VERSION;
         } else {
                 my $dir = "$self->{mainrepo}/xap" . SCHEMA_VERSION;
+                return $dir if $rdonly;
+
                 my $part = $self->{partition};
                 defined $part or die "partition not given";
                 $dir .= "/$part";
         }
 }
 
+sub xdb ($) {
+        my ($self) = @_;
+        $self->{xdb} ||= do {
+                load_xapian();
+                my $dir = xdir($self, 1);
+                if ($self->{version} >= 2) {
+                        my $xdb;
+                        foreach my $part (<$dir/*>) {
+                                -d $part && $part =~ m!/\d+\z! or next;
+                                my $sub = Search::Xapian::Database->new($part);
+                                if ($xdb) {
+                                        $xdb->add_database($sub);
+                                } else {
+                                        $xdb = $sub;
+                                }
+                        }
+                        $xdb;
+                } else {
+                        Search::Xapian::Database->new($dir);
+                }
+        };
+}
+
 sub new {
         my ($class, $mainrepo, $altid) = @_;
         my $version = 1;
@@ -138,33 +169,16 @@ sub new {
                 altid => $altid,
                 version => $version,
         }, $class;
-        my $dir;
-        if ($version >= 2) {
-                $dir = "$self->{mainrepo}/xap" . SCHEMA_VERSION;
-                my $xdb;
-                my $parts = 0;
-                foreach my $part (<$dir/*>) {
-                        -d $part && $part =~ m!/\d+\z! or next;
-                        $parts++;
-                        my $sub = Search::Xapian::Database->new($part);
-                        if ($xdb) {
-                                $xdb->add_database($sub);
-                        } else {
-                                $xdb = $sub;
-                        }
-                }
-                $self->{xdb} = $xdb;
-        } else {
-                $dir = $self->xdir;
-                $self->{xdb} = Search::Xapian::Database->new($dir);
-        }
+        my $dir = xdir($self, 1);
         $self->{over_ro} = PublicInbox::Over->new("$dir/over.sqlite3");
         $self;
 }
 
 sub reopen {
         my ($self) = @_;
-        $self->{xdb}->reopen;
+        if (my $xdb = $self->{xdb}) {
+                $xdb->reopen;
+        }
         $self; # make chaining easier
 }
 
@@ -175,7 +189,8 @@ sub query {
         if ($query_string eq '' && !$opts->{mset}) {
                 $self->{over_ro}->recent($opts);
         } else {
-                my $query = $self->qp->parse_query($query_string, QP_FLAGS);
+                my $qp = qp($self);
+                my $query = $qp->parse_query($query_string, $QP_FLAGS);
                 $opts->{relevance} = 1 unless exists $opts->{relevance};
                 _do_enquire($self, $query, $opts);
         }
@@ -213,7 +228,8 @@ sub _do_enquire {
 
 sub _enquire_once {
         my ($self, $query, $opts) = @_;
-        my $enquire = Search::Xapian::Enquire->new($self->{xdb});
+        my $xdb = xdb($self);
+        my $enquire = Search::Xapian::Enquire->new($xdb);
         $enquire->set_query($query);
         $opts ||= {};
         my $desc = !$opts->{asc};
@@ -246,13 +262,13 @@ sub qp {
 
         my $qp = $self->{query_parser};
         return $qp if $qp;
-
+        my $xdb = xdb($self);
         # new parser
         $qp = Search::Xapian::QueryParser->new;
-        $qp->set_default_op(OP_AND);
-        $qp->set_database($self->{xdb});
+        $qp->set_default_op(OP_AND());
+        $qp->set_database($xdb);
         $qp->set_stemmer($self->stemmer);
-        $qp->set_stemming_strategy(STEM_SOME);
+        $qp->set_stemming_strategy(STEM_SOME());
         $qp->set_max_wildcard_expansion(100);
         $qp->add_valuerangeprocessor(
                 Search::Xapian::NumberValueRangeProcessor->new(YYYYMMDD, 'd:'));
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/SearchIdx.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/SearchIdx.pm
index 1b86f727..135b5eb9 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/SearchIdx.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/SearchIdx.pm
@@ -54,11 +54,10 @@ sub new {
                                 die("Invalid indexlevel $ibx->{indexlevel}\n");
                         }
                 }
-        } else { # v1
+        } else { # FIXME: old tests: old tests
                 $ibx = { mainrepo => $git_dir, version => 1 };
         }
         $ibx = PublicInbox::InboxWritable->new($ibx);
-        require Search::Xapian::WritableDatabase;
         my $self = bless {
                 mainrepo => $mainrepo,
                 -inbox => $ibx,
@@ -84,25 +83,36 @@ sub new {
         $self;
 }
 
+sub need_xapian ($) { $_[0]->{indexlevel} =~ $xapianlevels }
+
 sub _xdb_release {
         my ($self) = @_;
-        my $xdb = delete $self->{xdb} or croak 'not acquired';
-        $xdb->close;
+        if (need_xapian($self)) {
+                my $xdb = delete $self->{xdb} or croak 'not acquired';
+                $xdb->close;
+        }
         $self->lock_release if $self->{creat};
         undef;
 }
 
 sub _xdb_acquire {
         my ($self) = @_;
-        croak 'already acquired' if $self->{xdb};
+        my $flag;
         my $dir = $self->xdir;
-        my $flag = Search::Xapian::DB_OPEN;
+        if (need_xapian($self)) {
+                croak 'already acquired' if $self->{xdb};
+                PublicInbox::Search::load_xapian();
+                require Search::Xapian::WritableDatabase;
+                $flag = $self->{creat} ?
+                        Search::Xapian::DB_CREATE_OR_OPEN() :
+                        Search::Xapian::DB_OPEN();
+        }
         if ($self->{creat}) {
                 require File::Path;
                 $self->lock_acquire;
                 File::Path::mkpath($dir);
-                $flag = Search::Xapian::DB_CREATE_OR_OPEN;
         }
+        return unless defined $flag;
         $self->{xdb} = Search::Xapian::WritableDatabase->new($dir, $flag);
 }
 
@@ -342,7 +352,7 @@ sub add_message {
                 $num = index_mm($self, $mime);
         }
         eval {
-                if ($self->{indexlevel} =~ $xapianlevels) {
+                if (need_xapian($self)) {
                         $self->add_xapian($mime, $num, $oid, $mids, $mid0)
                 }
                 if (my $over = $self->{over}) {
@@ -383,7 +393,6 @@ sub batch_do {
 # v1 only, where $mid is unique
 sub remove_message {
         my ($self, $mid) = @_;
-        my $db = $self->{xdb};
         $mid = mid_clean($mid);
 
         if (my $over = $self->{over}) {
@@ -394,7 +403,8 @@ sub remove_message {
                         warn "<$mid> missing for removal from overview\n";
                 }
         }
-        return if $self->{indexlevel} !~ $xapianlevels;
+        return unless need_xapian($self);
+        my $db = $self->{xdb};
         my $nr = 0;
         eval {
                 batch_do($self, 'Q' . $mid, sub {
@@ -413,10 +423,12 @@ sub remove_message {
 # MID is a hint in V2
 sub remove_by_oid {
         my ($self, $oid, $mid) = @_;
-        my $db = $self->{xdb};
 
         $self->{over}->remove_oid($oid, $mid) if $self->{over};
 
+        return unless need_xapian($self);
+        my $db = $self->{xdb};
+
         # XXX careful, we cannot use batch_do here since we conditionally
         # delete documents based on other factors, so we cannot call
         # find_doc_ids twice.
@@ -664,7 +676,7 @@ sub _last_x_commit {
         my ($self, $mm) = @_;
         my $lm = $mm->last_commit || '';
         my $lx = '';
-        if ($self->{indexlevel} =~ $xapianlevels) {
+        if (need_xapian($self)) {
                 $lx = $self->{xdb}->get_metadata('last_commit') || '';
         } else {
                 $lx = $lm;
@@ -695,7 +707,7 @@ sub _index_sync {
                 $self->{over}->disconnect;
                 $git->cleanup;
                 delete $self->{txn};
-                $xdb->cancel_transaction;
+                $xdb->cancel_transaction if $xdb;
                 $xdb = _xdb_release($self);
 
                 # ensure we leak no FDs to "git log" with Xapian <= 1.2
@@ -717,7 +729,7 @@ sub _index_sync {
                         }
                         $dbh->commit;
                 }
-                if ($newest && $self->{indexlevel} =~ $xapianlevels) {
+                if ($newest && need_xapian($self)) {
                         my $cur = $xdb->get_metadata('last_commit');
                         if (need_update($self, $cur, $newest)) {
                                 $xdb->set_metadata('last_commit', $newest);
@@ -785,7 +797,7 @@ sub begin_txn_lazy {
         $self->{-inbox}->with_umask(sub {
                 my $xdb = $self->{xdb} || $self->_xdb_acquire;
                 $self->{over}->begin_lazy if $self->{over};
-                $xdb->begin_transaction;
+                $xdb->begin_transaction if $xdb;
                 $self->{txn} = 1;
                 $xdb;
         });
@@ -795,14 +807,18 @@ sub commit_txn_lazy {
         my ($self) = @_;
         delete $self->{txn} or return;
         $self->{-inbox}->with_umask(sub {
-                $self->{xdb}->commit_transaction;
+                if (my $xdb = $self->{xdb}) {
+                        $xdb->commit_transaction;
+                }
                 $self->{over}->commit_lazy if $self->{over};
         });
 }
 
 sub worker_done {
         my ($self) = @_;
-        die "$$ $0 xdb not released\n" if $self->{xdb};
+        if (need_xapian($self)) {
+                die "$$ $0 xdb not released\n" if $self->{xdb};
+        }
         die "$$ $0 still in transaction\n" if $self->{txn};
 }
 
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm
index 0f963dcb..8e1b1afe 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm
@@ -149,8 +149,11 @@ sub preload {
         require PublicInbox::MIME;
         require Digest::SHA;
         require POSIX;
-
-        foreach (qw(PublicInbox::Search PublicInbox::SearchView
+        eval {
+                require PublicInbox::Search;
+                PublicInbox::Search::load_xapian();
+        };
+        foreach (qw(PublicInbox::SearchView
                         PublicInbox::Mbox IO::Compress::Gzip
                         PublicInbox::NewsWWW)) {
                 eval "require $_;";
diff --git a/script/public-inbox-index b/script/public-inbox-index
index b353093e..53def9a7 100755
--- a/script/public-inbox-index
+++ b/script/public-inbox-index
@@ -26,10 +26,12 @@ if ($@) {
 my $reindex;
 my $prune;
 my $jobs = undef;
+my $indexlevel;
 my %opts = (
         '--reindex' => \$reindex,
         '--jobs|j=i' => \$jobs,
         '--prune' => \$prune,
+        'L|indexlevel=s' => \$indexlevel,
 );
 GetOptions(%opts) or die "bad command-line args\n$usage";
 die "--jobs must be positive\n" if defined $jobs && $jobs < 0;
@@ -55,18 +57,27 @@ defined($config) and $config->each_inbox(sub {
 });
 
 foreach my $dir (@dirs) {
-        if (!ref($dir) && -f "$dir/inbox.lock") { # v2
-                my $ibx = { mainrepo => $dir, name => 'unnamed' };
+        if (!ref($dir)) {
+                unless (-d $dir) {
+                        die "$dir does not appear to be an inbox repository\n";
+                }
+                my $ibx = {
+                        mainrepo => $dir,
+                        name => 'unnamed',
+                        indexlevel => $indexlevel,
+                        version => -f "$dir/inbox.lock" ? 2 : 1,
+                };
                 $dir = PublicInbox::Inbox->new($ibx);
+        } elsif (defined $indexlevel && !defined($dir->{indexlevel})) {
+                # XXX: users can shoot themselves in the foot, with this...
+                $dir->{indexlevel} = $indexlevel;
         }
-        index_dir($dir);
+
+        index_inbox($dir);
 }
 
-sub index_dir {
+sub index_inbox {
         my ($repo) = @_;
-        if (!ref $repo && ! -d $repo) {
-                die "$repo does not appear to be an inbox repository\n";
-        }
         if (ref($repo) && ($repo->{version} || 1) == 2) {
                 eval { require PublicInbox::V2Writable };
                 die "v2 requirements not met: $@\n" if $@;
diff --git a/script/public-inbox-init b/script/public-inbox-init
index 8bb78451..9f0bd1bd 100755
--- a/script/public-inbox-init
+++ b/script/public-inbox-init
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ my $ibx = PublicInbox::Inbox->new({
         name => $name,
         version => $version,
         -primary_address => $address[0],
+        indexlevel => $indexlevel,
 });
 
 if ($version >= 2) {
diff --git a/script/public-inbox-purge b/script/public-inbox-purge
index 688dd950..264bcdef 100755
--- a/script/public-inbox-purge
+++ b/script/public-inbox-purge
@@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ if ($all) {
                                 mainrepo => $dir,
                         });
                 };
+
+                # somebody could "rm -r" all the Xapian directories;
+                # let them purge the overview, at least
+                $ibx->{indexlevel} ||= 'basic' unless $ibx->search;
+
                 push @inboxes, $ibx;
         }
 
diff --git a/t/admin.t b/t/admin.t
index b5a4383e..3790c9e2 100644
--- a/t/admin.t
+++ b/t/admin.t
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ SKIP: {
 
 # v2
 SKIP: {
-        for my $m (qw(DBD::SQLite Search::Xapian)) {
+        for my $m (qw(DBD::SQLite)) {
                 skip "$m missing", 5 unless eval "require $m";
         }
         use_ok 'PublicInbox::V2Writable';
diff --git a/t/cgi.t b/t/cgi.t
index b24bbc4a..d3172bf7 100644
--- a/t/cgi.t
+++ b/t/cgi.t
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ my $cfgpfx = "publicinbox.test";
         my %cfg = (
                 "$cfgpfx.address" => $addr,
                 "$cfgpfx.mainrepo" => $maindir,
+                "$cfgpfx.indexlevel" => 'basic',
         );
         while (my ($k,$v) = each %cfg) {
                 is(0, system(qw(git config --file), $pi_config, $k, $v),
@@ -39,9 +40,12 @@ my $cfgpfx = "publicinbox.test";
 
 use_ok 'PublicInbox::Git';
 use_ok 'PublicInbox::Import';
-use_ok 'Email::MIME';
-my $git = PublicInbox::Git->new($maindir);
-my $im = PublicInbox::Import->new($git, 'test', $addr);
+use_ok 'PublicInbox::Inbox';
+use_ok 'PublicInbox::V1Writable';
+use_ok 'PublicInbox::Config';
+my $cfg = PublicInbox::Config->new($pi_config);
+my $ibx = $cfg->lookup_name('test');
+my $im = PublicInbox::V1Writable->new($ibx);
 
 {
         local $ENV{HOME} = $home;
@@ -103,8 +107,9 @@ EOF
         like($res->{head}, qr/^Status: 501 /, "search not-yet-enabled");
         my $indexed;
         eval {
+                require DBD::SQLite;
                 require PublicInbox::SearchIdx;
-                my $s = PublicInbox::SearchIdx->new($maindir, 1);
+                my $s = PublicInbox::SearchIdx->new($ibx, 1);
                 $s->index_sync;
                 $indexed = 1;
         };
@@ -120,6 +125,7 @@ EOF
                 };
         } else {
                 like($res->{head}, qr/^Status: 501 /, "search not available");
+                SKIP: { skip 'DBD::SQLite not available', 2 };
         }
 
         my $have_xml_feed = eval { require XML::Feed; 1 } if $indexed;
@@ -132,6 +138,8 @@ EOF
                 my $p = XML::Feed->parse(\($res->{body}));
                 is($p->format, "Atom", "parsed atom feed");
                 is(scalar $p->entries, 3, "parsed three entries");
+        } else {
+                SKIP: { skip 'DBD::SQLite or XML::Feed missing', 2 };
         }
 }
 
diff --git a/t/indexlevels-mirror.t b/t/indexlevels-mirror.t
index e25b827f..cac7050b 100644
--- a/t/indexlevels-mirror.t
+++ b/t/indexlevels-mirror.t
@@ -10,8 +10,7 @@ require './t/common.perl';
 require_git(2.6);
 my $this = (split('/', __FILE__))[-1];
 
-# TODO: remove Search::Xapian as a requirement for basic
-foreach my $mod (qw(DBD::SQLite Search::Xapian)) {
+foreach my $mod (qw(DBD::SQLite)) {
         eval "require $mod";
         plan skip_all => "$mod missing for $this" if $@;
 }
@@ -47,8 +46,11 @@ sub import_index_incremental {
         $im->done;
 
         # index master (required for v1)
-        is(system($index, $ibx->{mainrepo}), 0, 'index master OK');
-        my $ro_master = PublicInbox::Inbox->new({mainrepo => $ibx->{mainrepo}});
+        is(system($index, $ibx->{mainrepo}, "-L$level"), 0, 'index master OK');
+        my $ro_master = PublicInbox::Inbox->new({
+                mainrepo => $ibx->{mainrepo},
+                indexlevel => $level
+        });
         my ($nr, $msgs) = $ro_master->recent;
         is($nr, 1, 'only one message in master, so far');
         is($msgs->[0]->{mid}, 'm@1', 'first message in master indexed');
@@ -75,7 +77,10 @@ sub import_index_incremental {
         is(system($index, $mirror), 0, "v$v index mirror OK");
 
         # read-only access
-        my $ro_mirror = PublicInbox::Inbox->new({mainrepo => $mirror});
+        my $ro_mirror = PublicInbox::Inbox->new({
+                mainrepo => $mirror,
+                indexlevel => 'basic'
+        });
         ($nr, $msgs) = $ro_mirror->recent;
         is($nr, 1, 'only one message, so far');
         is($msgs->[0]->{mid}, 'm@1', 'read first message');
@@ -94,7 +99,7 @@ sub import_index_incremental {
                 ['m@1','m@2'], 'got both messages in mirror');
 
         # incremental index master (required for v1)
-        is(system($index, $ibx->{mainrepo}), 0, 'index master OK');
+        is(system($index, $ibx->{mainrepo}, "-L$level"), 0, 'index master OK');
         ($nr, $msgs) = $ro_master->recent;
         is($nr, 2, '2nd message seen in master');
         is_deeply([sort { $a cmp $b } map { $_->{mid} } @$msgs],
diff --git a/t/nntp.t b/t/nntp.t
index c4b9737c..7ab801c1 100644
--- a/t/nntp.t
+++ b/t/nntp.t
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ use strict;
 use warnings;
 use Test::More;
 
-foreach my $mod (qw(DBD::SQLite Search::Xapian Data::Dumper)) {
+foreach my $mod (qw(DBD::SQLite Data::Dumper)) {
         eval "require $mod";
         plan skip_all => "$mod missing for nntp.t" if $@;
 }
diff --git a/t/nntpd.t b/t/nntpd.t
index b8a84a0c..c7ea3197 100644
--- a/t/nntpd.t
+++ b/t/nntpd.t
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use Test::More;
-foreach my $mod (qw(DBD::SQLite Search::Xapian)) {
+foreach my $mod (qw(DBD::SQLite)) {
         eval "require $mod";
         plan skip_all => "$mod missing for nntpd.t" if $@;
 }
@@ -55,12 +55,13 @@ my $ibx = {
         name => $group,
         version => $version,
         -primary_address => $addr,
+        indexlevel => 'basic',
 };
 $ibx = PublicInbox::Inbox->new($ibx);
 {
         local $ENV{HOME} = $home;
         my @cmd = ($init, $group, $mainrepo, 'http://example.com/', $addr);
-        push @cmd, "-V$version";
+        push @cmd, "-V$version", '-Lbasic';
         is(system(@cmd), 0, 'init OK');
         is(system(qw(git config), "--file=$home/.public-inbox/config",
                         "publicinbox.$group.newsgroup", $group),
@@ -71,8 +72,8 @@ $ibx = PublicInbox::Inbox->new($ibx);
         if ($version == 2) {
                 $im = PublicInbox::V2Writable->new($ibx);
         } elsif ($version == 1) {
-                my $git = PublicInbox::Git->new($mainrepo);
-                $im = PublicInbox::Import->new($git, 'test', $addr);
+                use_ok 'PublicInbox::V1Writable';
+                $im = PublicInbox::V1Writable->new($ibx);
         } else {
                 die "unsupported version: $version";
         }
@@ -261,6 +262,12 @@ EOF
                 is($rdr, waitpid($rdr, 0), 'reader done');
                 is($? >> 8, 0, 'no errors');
         }
+        SKIP: {
+                my @of = `lsof -p $pid 2>/dev/null`;
+                skip('lsof broken', 1) if (!scalar(@of) || $?);
+                my @xap = grep m!Search/Xapian!, @of;
+                is_deeply(\@xap, [], 'Xapian not loaded in nntpd');
+        }
         {
                 setsockopt($s, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, 1);
                 syswrite($s, 'HDR List-id 1-');
diff --git a/t/over.t b/t/over.t
index 7a3c9721..c0d9d5e5 100644
--- a/t/over.t
+++ b/t/over.t
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ use warnings;
 use Test::More;
 use File::Temp qw/tempdir/;
 use Compress::Zlib qw(compress);
-# FIXME: allow using Over w/o Xapian
-foreach my $mod (qw(DBD::SQLite Search::Xapian)) {
+foreach my $mod (qw(DBD::SQLite)) {
         eval "require $mod";
         plan skip_all => "$mod missing for over.t" if $@;
 }
diff --git a/t/psgi_bad_mids.t b/t/psgi_bad_mids.t
index 5008f5be..71eefe59 100644
--- a/t/psgi_bad_mids.t
+++ b/t/psgi_bad_mids.t
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ use File::Temp qw/tempdir/;
 use PublicInbox::MIME;
 use PublicInbox::Config;
 use PublicInbox::WWW;
-my @mods = qw(DBD::SQLite Search::Xapian HTTP::Request::Common Plack::Test
+my @mods = qw(DBD::SQLite HTTP::Request::Common Plack::Test
                 URI::Escape Plack::Builder);
 foreach my $mod (@mods) {
         eval "require $mod";
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ my $ibx = {
         name => 'bad-mids',
         version => 2,
         -primary_address => 'test@example.com',
+        indexlevel => 'basic',
 };
 $ibx = PublicInbox::Inbox->new($ibx);
 my $im = PublicInbox::V2Writable->new($ibx, 1);
diff --git a/t/psgi_scan_all.t b/t/psgi_scan_all.t
index e9c439ec..2f54c820 100644
--- a/t/psgi_scan_all.t
+++ b/t/psgi_scan_all.t
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@ use Test::More;
 use Email::MIME;
 use File::Temp qw/tempdir/;
 use PublicInbox::Config;
-my @mods = qw(HTTP::Request::Common Plack::Test URI::Escape Search::Xapian
-        DBD::SQLite);
+my @mods = qw(HTTP::Request::Common Plack::Test URI::Escape DBD::SQLite);
 foreach my $mod (@mods) {
         eval "require $mod";
         plan skip_all => "$mod missing for psgi_scan_all.t" if $@;
@@ -26,6 +25,7 @@ foreach my $i (1..2) {
                 mainrepo => $mainrepo,
                 name => "test-$i",
                 version => 2,
+                indexlevel => 'basic',
                 -primary_address => $addr,
         };
         my $ibx = PublicInbox::Inbox->new($opt);
diff --git a/t/psgi_search.t b/t/psgi_search.t
index da6cc682..1adc1d6e 100644
--- a/t/psgi_search.t
+++ b/t/psgi_search.t
@@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ use Email::MIME;
 use PublicInbox::Config;
 use PublicInbox::WWW;
 use bytes (); # only for bytes::length
-my @mods = qw(PublicInbox::SearchIdx HTTP::Request::Common Plack::Test
+my @mods = qw(Search::Xapian HTTP::Request::Common Plack::Test
                 URI::Escape Plack::Builder);
 foreach my $mod (@mods) {
         eval "require $mod";
         plan skip_all => "$mod missing for psgi_search.t" if $@;
 }
-use_ok $_ foreach @mods;
+use_ok $_ foreach (@mods, qw(PublicInbox::SearchIdx));
 my $tmpdir = tempdir('pi-psgi-search.XXXXXX', TMPDIR => 1, CLEANUP => 1);
 my $git_dir = "$tmpdir/a.git";
 
diff --git a/t/purge.t b/t/purge.t
index 574935e0..c1e0e9a0 100644
--- a/t/purge.t
+++ b/t/purge.t
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use Test::More;
 use File::Temp qw/tempdir/;
 require './t/common.perl';
 require_git(2.6);
-my @mods = qw(IPC::Run DBI DBD::SQLite Search::Xapian);
+my @mods = qw(IPC::Run DBI DBD::SQLite);
 foreach my $mod (@mods) {
         eval "require $mod";
         plan skip_all => "missing $mod for t/purge.t" if $@;
diff --git a/t/search-thr-index.t b/t/search-thr-index.t
index ed3e4e76..848dc564 100644
--- a/t/search-thr-index.t
+++ b/t/search-thr-index.t
@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@ use Test::More;
 use File::Temp qw/tempdir/;
 use PublicInbox::MID qw(mids);
 use Email::MIME;
-eval { require PublicInbox::SearchIdx; };
-plan skip_all => "Xapian missing for search" if $@;
+eval { require Search::Xapian };
+plan skip_all => "Search::Xapian missing for search" if $@;
+require PublicInbox::SearchIdx;
 my $tmpdir = tempdir('pi-search-thr-index.XXXXXX', TMPDIR => 1, CLEANUP => 1);
 my $git_dir = "$tmpdir/a.git";
 
diff --git a/t/search.t b/t/search.t
index 493e00de..a9d0c920 100644
--- a/t/search.t
+++ b/t/search.t
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use Test::More;
-eval { require PublicInbox::SearchIdx; };
-plan skip_all => "Xapian missing for search" if $@;
+eval { require Search::Xapian };
+plan skip_all => "Search::Xapian missing for search" if $@;
+require PublicInbox::SearchIdx;
 use File::Temp qw/tempdir/;
 use Email::MIME;
 my $tmpdir = tempdir('pi-search-XXXXXX', TMPDIR => 1, CLEANUP => 1);
@@ -12,7 +13,7 @@ my $git_dir = "$tmpdir/a.git";
 my ($root_id, $last_id);
 
 is(0, system(qw(git init --shared -q --bare), $git_dir), "git init (main)");
-eval { PublicInbox::Search->new($git_dir) };
+eval { PublicInbox::Search->new($git_dir)->xdb };
 ok($@, "exception raised on non-existent DB");
 
 my $rw = PublicInbox::SearchIdx->new($git_dir, 1);
diff --git a/t/v1reindex.t b/t/v1reindex.t
index 33a36fad..402ecd78 100644
--- a/t/v1reindex.t
+++ b/t/v1reindex.t
@@ -209,8 +209,7 @@ ok(!-d $xap, 'Xapian directories removed again');
         delete $ibx->{mm};
         is_deeply([ $ibx->mm->minmax ], $minmax, 'minmax unchanged');
         is($ibx->mm->num_highwater, 10, 'num_highwater as expected');
-        my $mset = $ibx->search->reopen->query('hello world', {mset=>1});
-        is($mset->size, 0, "no Xapian search results");
+        isnt($ibx->search, 'no search for basic');
 
         my ($min, $max) = $ibx->mm->minmax;
         is_deeply($ibx->mm->msg_range(\$min, $max), $msgmap, 'msgmap unchanged');
diff --git a/t/v2reindex.t b/t/v2reindex.t
index c416629c..2a6fc555 100644
--- a/t/v2reindex.t
+++ b/t/v2reindex.t
@@ -225,8 +225,9 @@ ok(!-d $xap, 'Xapian directories removed again');
         delete $ibx->{mm};
         is_deeply([ $ibx->mm->minmax ], $minmax, 'minmax unchanged');
         is($ibx->mm->num_highwater, 10, 'num_highwater as expected');
-        my $mset = $ibx->search->query('freedom', {mset=>1});
-        is($mset->size, 0, "search fails on indexlevel='basic'");
+
+        isnt($ibx->search, 'no search for basic');
+
         for (<"$xap/*/*">) { $sizes{$ibx->{indexlevel}} += -s _ if -f $_ }
         ok($sizes{medium} > $sizes{basic}, 'basic is smaller than medium');
 
diff --git a/t/watch_maildir_v2.t b/t/watch_maildir_v2.t
index 5f968919..b2cff4ba 100644
--- a/t/watch_maildir_v2.t
+++ b/t/watch_maildir_v2.t
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ use Cwd;
 use PublicInbox::Config;
 require './t/common.perl';
 require_git(2.6);
-my @mods = qw(Filesys::Notify::Simple PublicInbox::V2Writable);
+my @mods = qw(Search::Xapian DBD::SQLite Filesys::Notify::Simple);
 foreach my $mod (@mods) {
         eval "require $mod";
         plan skip_all => "$mod missing for watch_maildir_v2.t" if $@;
 }
-
+require PublicInbox::V2Writable;
 my $tmpdir = tempdir('watch_maildir-v2-XXXXXX', TMPDIR => 1, CLEANUP => 1);
 my $mainrepo = "$tmpdir/v2";
 my $maildir = "$tmpdir/md";