Planet Debian Searching Posted Thu, 24 Jan 2008

In the "bits from the Planet Debian maintainer" department...

Steve Kemp has been running a little index and search script for Planet Debian for a couple years now that lets you search for old entries that have showed up on Planet Debian. He was going to take his system offline but, since it was in use by a variety of people, he opted to move it into the default Planet Debian instead.

You should be able to see and use the search box in the sidebar on Planet Debian now. Feedback is welcome, I'm sure. Thanks to Steve for the fantastic addition to our aggregator.

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Excellent news, I didn't know about that search.

I wish we had that for Planet Ubuntu !
Posted by Fabian Rodriguez at Thu Jan 24 16:25:58 2008
I'm sure Steve would be happy to help share the code so that it could be installed on Planet Ubuntu as well. Do you know how is in charge of this? I'd be happy to help whoever it is with the instructions and introductions necessary to get this done.
Posted by Benjamin Mako Hill at Thu Jan 24 16:30:23 2008
I'd be happy to see the code on other hosts.

Right now it is installed upon gluck only, and you know the location.  If there are any changes required I'd be happy to publish a mercurial repository and make them as required.

S
Posted by Steve at Thu Jan 24 18:03:10 2008
Hi Mako, do you have any idea why this post itself doesn't show up on Planet Debian?
Posted by Ming at Thu Jan 24 19:07:47 2008
Steve et al., I'd be happy to distribute the latest version of the code. Just drop me an email.

Ming, I think I left a stray lockfile around when I did the upgrade. Should be all fixed now!
Posted by mako at Fri Jan 25 10:25:33 2008
I've committed all the code to mercurial now here:

http://planet-search.repository.steve.org.uk/?file/

Copy/Use as you wish.  The only thing that will need to change is the "./run.sh" script to pass arguments to the spider.

Patches welcome.
Posted by Steve at Fri Jan 25 10:52:37 2008
IIRC some folks didn't want to be archived. What that accounted for by some flag?
Posted by Kevin Mark at Fri Jan 25 19:10:44 2008
great!
Posted by mike at Sat Jan 26 05:21:48 2008

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