[Savannah-help-public] Re: Search doesn't work right

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:33:42PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     Currently the search result order is directly provided by MySQL. After
>     giving it a look a few weeks ago I concluded this would require to
>     actually implement the search post-processing (and not just modifying
>     something that exists) (sorry for not answering at that time).
> 
> How about adding a feature that lets you manually specify the preferred
> back-end when a package has more than one?  That should be much less work.
> And since this probably won't arise often, setting them manually
> won't be much work for you either.

I think we're talking about different issues, your original request was:

"When I connect to savannah.gnu.org with a browser and enter "emacs" in
the search box, the first package it finds is not Emacs.  I think that
is a bug.

Matches of the specified string in package names should come first,
and the shortest matches should come first among the matches.
That way, if you enter the exact name of a package, that package
will always come first in the list you get."

but I think you're talking about the fact Emacs uses both GNU Arch and
CVS.


I'll look at those issues hopefully soon.

-- 
Sylvain