Today, I wanted to search the freebsd-hackers list for the term `pkg_version'. When I limited the search to `recent' entries, I got several hits, but none of the entries seemed to contain the searched term. When I unlimitted the search to `all' entries I got no single hit -- not even the hits, the previous limited search found. Modifying the search key to `pkg and version' did not help. Fix: Unknown. How-To-Repeat: Try to use the http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists to search the freebsd-hackers list for the term `pkg_version'.
I'm not sure if this helps but try pkg_* (returns all pkg_version among others) Also, set results = 250. Some lower amounts don't get any pkg_version entries. That being said, it is strange that 'pkg_version' doesn't return any results. This may be due to how the form is parsed up before search. My guess is that there is a perl regular expression in need of adjustment. Best Regards, jpb ===
I have done a search here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/ I get two results, funny how the the Underscore drops away in the search. Karl
State Changed From-To: open->suspended I do not honestly believe that someone will have a look at this soon from now, so mark it as suspended. That said; this might be something that cannot be resolved by the software that we are using now, there are other interfaces to search through the mailing list archives, for example through markmail: http://freebsd.markmail.org/ and rambler.ru also provides something that can be used probably. Would knowing that resolve the problem in the first place?
1. <https://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists> 2. type 'VirtualBox' 3. Submit Query 4. observe <https://duckduckgo.com/?sites=docs.FreeBSD.org%2Fmail%2Clists.FreeBSD.org%2Fpipermail&ka=v&kt=v&kh=1&kj=r2&q=VirtualBox&submit=Submit+Query&ia=web> 5. change 'Any Time' to 'Past Month' Expected ======== - posts from the past month Actual results ============== - posts from years ago. Thoughts ======== If the form-based approach at <https://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists> can not be reliable then the form should be removed from that part of the page.
Created attachment 181836 [details] search results for 'Past Month' Supposed results for the past month. Actual results are, at a glance, mostly from 2009.
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #5) Whilst the original issue was to do with the mail search process, the form has been using duckduckgo for searching docs.FreeBSD.org/mail & lists.FreeBSD.org/pipermail. Poor results are down to the crawler now. I've reported the issue with poor search results to duckduckgo.
(In reply to Sevan Janiyan from comment #6) I meant to say the form has been using duckduckgo for searching docs.FreeBSD.org/mail & lists.FreeBSD.org/pipermail since a few years ago. So on the surface we may have a poor indexing problem but the fact of the matter is that the search facility changed from hosted in house to using search engines a long time ago.
Re: comment #6 thanks. (I suspected that part of the problem would be beyond the control of FreeBSD …)
We no longer use our own search facility but rely on DuckDuckGo.