[arch-general] AUR Search

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Andrei Thorp<garoth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello there!
>
> Today, I'd like to be all complainy about the AUR search feature. I
> haven't really looked around, but are there plans to improve it? Or is
> the solution just "use google with site://"?
>
> It seems to be kind of bad at finding stuff. Some examples:
>  - Can't search by description (well, it does search by description by
>   default, but it's not in the advanced options anywhere)
>  - Can't really do any decent multi-word searches afaik. To take an
>   example from the other argument thread, try searching for "java
>   gstreamer". It finds neither gstreamer-java nor java-gstreamer. It
>   actually finds nothing at all.
>  - Similarly, wildcards seem to not work. "java*gstreamer" has no results.
>  - It seems to not even do exact matches first. For example, search for
>   my package, "sup". There is a package in AUR that's exactly named
>   "sup", but if you search for that, you get 658 results, sorted
>   alphabetically!
>  - Which reminds me, what about sorting by relevance somehow? Perhaps
>   sort by a weighting of votes, age, downloads, etc.
>
> I'm sorry if I'm bringing this up as someone's already writing
> improvements for AUR and this is just a waste of time :)
>
> Anyway, thanks!
> --
> Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com)
>
> <miguel> any new sendmail hole I have to fix before going on vacations?
>        -- Seen on #Linux
>

The AUR interface has a seperate section in the bug tracker.
There is also a seperate mailing list for its development.

-- 
Greg