Package Search

From openSUSE

What it Searches

Currently the package search is indexing:

• Online OSS/Non-OSS Official Repositories
• The Packman Repository
• The Guru repository
• The openSUSE Build Service

... for openSUSE 10.2, SUSE Linux 10.1, and Factory.

Current Implementation

The search is available and running right now! Just head over to http://packages.opensuse-community.org

An example search for Amarok

The source is also available: src.

Integration with YaST

Exciting things are planned for the package search including integration allowing you to one-click-install packages, making software installation even simpler. See Meta Packages.

Future

• Search service joint hosting Novell/Community, Adrian Schröter is looking into this.
• Migration of the frontend to the search to opensuse-community.org
• Fix ycp/perl to a releasable state. (someone who knows what they're doing)
• Improve the "Install now" functionality of the search service, by calculating the repositories each package depends on (it isn't always

just the one the package is located in). I am currently investigating either a simple method looking at the repository dependencies in the build service and manual setup for repositories outside the build service, and a far more complicated method using the rpm requires & depends.

• Integration with new build service features such as statistics,

using the search service statistics to improve results.

• Using search service to enrich client side software.

Future package search design