On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 19:20 -0500, David Curry wrote: > Subject thread says it all. > > The basis for my assertion is many experiences trying to find > information in fedora archives. Today, I made notes of steps in trying > to find information in fedora-config-list archives and conducting > quite a few searches for messages dealing with pup. I asked for > searches on all sections, on keywords, on title, and on body. I asked > for searches of the entire archive and for searches on a couple of > individual months. In every case the result was the same - 0 hits. I > searched on pup + yum and again 0 hits on pup with a few hits on yum. > > I googled "pup front-end for yum" and got lots of hits, including some > news reader services like gmane (I did not look on gmane itself) where I > was able to retrieve and read some fedora-config-list messages posted in > January 2005. Then I returned to redhat fedora-config-list archive > page, selected January 2005 display by thread and searched for the > specific subject thread I had just read. You guessed it!! Zero hits > even though it was the seventh message presented as I scrolled down the > page. > > The Red Hat archive search engine is broken, broken, broken. And this is why I use google to search the archives instead. Just add the name of the list as an additional search term in google. For example, I googled for: fedora-config-list pup and the thread you mentioned came up as the third hit. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
