Fedora Documentation Search Engine

[Karsten Wade]

On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 14:21 +0000, Stuart Ellis wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:56:58 -0000 (GMT), "Gavin Henry"
> <ghenry at suretecsystems.com> said:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > Has there been any discussion about this?
> > 
> > I thinking along the lines of htdig/swish-e that indexes all man
> > pages/howto/README after every rpm is installed.
> > 
> > Something like a post entry in the spec file, or similar.
> 
> I haven't seen any on this list, but essentially this is a function of
> having a desktop search/indexing engine since there isn't a common
> format to this stuff.  The next release of yelp (GNOME help browser)
> will display info and man pages, but can't index the random txt, html,
> pdf etc. that goes into /usr/share/doc/.

One reason I like yelp is because it can (aiui) render straight XML, so
we could put the entire fedora-docs tree on an install.  I've discussed
with others the idea of having docs be more modular so they can be
linked via metadata to yelp topics.  This all supposes support by the
underlying yelp code.

I like the idea of separately indexing documentation, both as a cron job
and as part of the package install process.

- Karsten
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