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

[Matt Florido]

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