Package Search

From openSUSE

openSUSE Packages have often been hard to locate and scattered over many domains. The Package Search enables users to easily locate all software packaged for openSUSE.

What it Searches

Currently the package search is indexing:

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

... for openSUSE 11.0, openSUSE 10.3, openSUSE 10.2 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

Wishlist

It would be nice if you could download the RPM of choice from the search results, like on the openSUSE search page. Also, the One-Click install is a great feature, but I want the RPM file.