On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:38:22AM -0800, Olivier Duclos wrote:

So yesterday I was looking if someone had already made a pkgbuild for the rar archiver. I typed 'rar' in the search engine and got 1224 matches. Since rar wasn't at the top of the results, I thought it didn't exist and created it under the name 'rar-official'.

And this morning, I receive a message telling me there is already a pkgbuild for rar. *Sigh* Now, I agree that I could have searched a little longer, but that doesn't change the fact that the search engine is too basic and should at least show the exact match in first position.

That's not a bad suggestion. Just for future reference: If you look closer you'll notice that search results are arranged alphabetically by package name by default. You'd just need to navigate to the Rs and you should have found rar.

Le Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:55:39 +0100, Xavier a écrit :

But then again, rar is probably a corner case. I have personally never ran into that problem in all the searches I did on AUR so it is probably not a big deal :)

Ever tried to search vi? :) +1 from Just Another User on Xavier's suggestion to do the same as in viewvc. -- catwell

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:09:39 +0100 Pierre Chapuis wrote:

Le Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:55:39 +0100, Xavier a écrit :

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But then again, rar is probably a corner case. I have personally never ran into that problem in all the searches I did on AUR so it is probably not a big deal :)

Ever tried to search vi? :) +1 from Just Another User on Xavier's suggestion to do the same as in viewvc.

I think it would be a great new feature, but still I think that if we have an exact match, it should be shown first. I've quickly modified Find.php to do that. At line 261, I changed the if block to : if ($pattern || ($type != 'php' && $type != 'perl')) { while (list(,$entry) = each($data)) { if ($match_function($pattern, $fullpath ? $entry : basename($entry))) { if ($entry == $pattern) { array_unshift($matches, $entry); } else { $matches[] = $entry; } } } } Of course, this only works if $pattern correspond exactly to what the user has typed, which I am absolutely not sure. Anyway, don't you think it's a good idea ?

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 03:50:45PM -0800, Olivier Duclos wrote:

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:09:39 +0100 Pierre Chapuis wrote:

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Le Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:55:39 +0100, Xavier a écrit :

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But then again, rar is probably a corner case. I have personally never ran into that problem in all the searches I did on AUR so it is probably not a big deal :)

Ever tried to search vi? :) +1 from Just Another User on Xavier's suggestion to do the same as in viewvc.

I think it would be a great new feature, but still I think that if we have an exact match, it should be shown first.

I've quickly modified Find.php to do that. At line 261, I changed the if block to :

if ($pattern || ($type != 'php' && $type != 'perl')) { while (list(,$entry) = each($data)) { if ($match_function($pattern, $fullpath ? $entry : basename($entry))) { if ($entry == $pattern) { array_unshift($matches, $entry); } else { $matches[] = $entry; } } } }

Of course, this only works if $pattern correspond exactly to what the user has typed, which I am absolutely not sure. Anyway, don't you think it's a good idea ?

Unfortunately Find.php has nothing to do with searching for packages on the web. It's really just a copy of http://pear.php.net/package/File_Find.