Don't Waste Time on Fedora Mailing List Archive Searches - Search Engine Broken
Matt Florido
matt at floridonet.com
Wed Mar 9 00:51:42 UTC 2005
David Curry wrote:
> Subject thread says it all.
> The basis for my assertion is many experiences trying to find
> information in fedora archives. Today, I made notes of steps in trying
> to find information in fedora-config-list archives and conducting
> quite a few searches for messages dealing with pup. I asked for
> searches on all sections, on keywords, on title, and on body. I asked
> for searches of the entire archive and for searches on a couple of
> individual months. In every case the result was the same - 0 hits. I
> searched on pup + yum and again 0 hits on pup with a few hits on yum.
[...]
>
> The Red Hat archive search engine is broken, broken, broken.
>
I've experienced something similar, but it's not broken. Try the
extended search or just entering your search query again after it
returns the initial 0 found.
Works for me.
I found ~2000 hits for fedora-config-list.
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Regards,
Matt Florido
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