Don't Waste Time on Fedora Mailing List Archive Searches - Search Engine Broken

[David Curry]

Matt Florido wrote:

> 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.
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>> The Red Hat archive search engine is broken, broken, broken.
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> 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.
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> I found ~2000 hits for fedora-config-list.
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Thanks for the feedback, Matt.  With extended search I got 25 hits, all 
of which were not relevant to yum or updating packages.  One was a 
reference to experiences "as a young pup", eniac, altair, etc., several 
pointed to messages concerning a book entitled "Practical Unix 
Programming" and the rest contained references to "pup up the volume".  
Entering the search query again after an initial return of 0 found, 
returned 0 -- again, and again, and again.

If Fedora archive searches work for you (sometimes) and for Rahul, but 
not for me then they are not completely broken -- just random, blatantly 
unreliable events.