Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:40:44 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: John Armstrong <siberian@siberian.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Search engine on website Message-ID: <19990728174044.B52655@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <v0421010bb3c1cce91168@[216.112.76.84]>; from John Armstrong on Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 01:31:54AM -0700 References: <v0421010bb3c1cce91168@[216.112.76.84]>
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On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 01:31:54AM -0700, John Armstrong wrote:
> Am I the only one who is pretty annoyed at the online search engine
> at www.freebsd.org? It works great but it returns URL's rather then
> the document titles that it is searching. This makes it especially
> hard for newbies to find the data they are looking for as they have
> to page through tons of results to syphon out the data they want.
You're not the only one, there's a PR been mentioned about this as well.
> 1) Is there a reason it is like this?
That's how the software does it. No one's gotten around to fixing it.
> 2) If the reason is 'no one has gotten around to it' how can I help?
1. Download the website CVS source repository, using CVSup or CTM.
2. Get comfortable building a local copy of the FreeBSD website on your
machine using this source code.
3. Pick up swish (I've used it before myself, it's a good choice),
and come up with a configuration file that can be used to index
the FreeBSD site -- swish is in the ports tree, so this should
work well.
4. Get it working.
5. Submit diffs using send-pr(1). Bug me until I (or Wolfram) install
it and get it working.
I've been a little hazy on some of the details up there, but that's because
I don't want to write a(nother) 300 line e-mail. If you need more
specific information though, let me now.
N
--
[intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
the links.
-- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>
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