When I want to report bugs to Gentoo's Bugzilla I visit the fron page here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/ Today I ran into a small issue with slocate so I visited the above link, typed in slocate and found only 3 bugs: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75909 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115601 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130079 At this point I created a new bug report: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130853 Within minutes this was marked as a duplicate of this bug report: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130337 which was not found in the original list. If the Bugzilla search was better at telling us what's already in the system then we'd end up with few duplicated reports. I feel bad for Jakub Moc having to deal with this. It seems to happen an awful lot. If the search box on the front page worked better then I would have found the solution to my problem, would have not entered a new bug, there would be far fewer duplicates and less work for Jakub.
Mark, This has been an oft-bugged problem, which is why under the search terms we've added the note to add 'ALL' to your search terms. It is an upstream problem, one which I've mentioned them before, because it has to do with the CGI search on that page. -Jeffrey
Thanks for the hint. I notice the note but apparently was using it incorrectly: slocate ALL finds nothing ALL slocate finds eveything I should have found before. Possibly the note should say prefix 'ALL' instead of affix 'ALL'. I'm not an English major and am an 'American' speaker. Two strikes against me right there! ;-) From Google using define:affix <SNIP> Definitions of affix on the Web: * attach to; "affix the seal here" * append: add to the very end; "He appended a glossary to his novel where he used an invented language" * a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form * attach or become attached to a stem word; "grammatical morphemes affix to the stem" <SNIP> None the less, thanks very much. I'm sorry to have been submitting duplicate bug reports for so long and making Jakub do all this work. I'm sure he's emmensely tired of me but hopefully less so in the future!
