Re: [Guix Website] A Search Page for Packages

[Christopher Baines]

John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com> writes:

> Question: what is the search syntax that is expected? I tried
> searching for "stump" and it only returned a go package that ended in
> "stump." Searching for "stumpwm" turned up all the expected suspects
> though. While "stump*" was the same as "stump."

The search functionality is being provided by the Guix Data Service,
which in turn is searching through records in a PostgreSQL database.

The relevant code is here [1], and it's the plainto_tsquery bit that
starts the transformation from a string to what PostgreSQL is using for
the search.

1: 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/data-service.git/tree/guix-data-service/model/package.scm#n144

So yeah, I don't think the way it's implemented currently supports * as
a wildcard, although maybe that could be supported by changing the way
the query works.

Chris

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