On Wed, 12 May 2010, David Malcolm wrote: > I don't know if that's the issue, but this reminded me of this: > http://www.secretgeek.net/ms_search.asp > > Implementing "search" is difficult. In a good implementation, the user > shouldn't need to understand the schema of the underlying database > ("name" vs "description"): you should be able to type text and get good > results, in a meaningful order. You should be able to misspell things > and have the program cope. You should be able to type synonyms of words > and get good suggestions. It should cope with non-English queries. > > I don't know how to solve this well for Fedora; FWIW, I saw that the > package database recently gained an Applications search feature. I'd > love it if software search results within Fedora could direct the user > to a pending package review, or to a relevant SIG within Fedora, > perhaps. > 1. try running: yum search python rsync ssh | less look at the results. - we sort them based on the number of items matched and where the items were found (pkgnames, summary, descriptions) 2. we implemented support for a tags db/keywords db lookup in yum. If a repo has a tags metadata defined in it - yum will download it and search it to match it to a pkg. The format of this db is the one that the pkgdb can generate. We just need that added to the fedora repos when they are made. Seriously folks- try doing a 'yum search foo' before saying we cannot provide good search results. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
