Bug 52683

Summary:	when searching, packages containing a search term in the name aren't favoured
Product:	Gentoo Infrastructure	Reporter:	Rob Holland <tigger>
Component:	[OLD] gpackages	Assignee:	Albert Hopkins (RETIRED) <marduk>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	klieber
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Rob Holland 2004-06-01 06:53:33 UTC

I think when searching for 'apache', net-www/apache should be the first hit, and other packages with apache in the name should come next, follow by mod_* which just have it in their description.

Comment 1 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-01 06:58:25 UTC

not sure what searching algorithm we're using.

marduk?

Comment 2 Albert Hopkins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-01 08:06:32 UTC

The search is made pretty much the same as the -s and -S flags in the emerge command.  All searches are regular expressions.  So even doing an "emerge -S apache" the apache package shows up 8th or so.  If you are, for example,  specifically looking for the "apache" package, then your search string would be "^apache$"