The search engine for packages at the Debian main website can' find the "xxdiff" package when I tried a variety of different searches using the text "diff". The Debian website knows about the xxdiff package, as this URL shows; http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages2.pl?keywords=xxdiff&searchon=names&version=all&release=all So some of the website knows about the package, but the package search engine apparently does not. I did search at this webpage on about 5pm Sunday 12 January 2003, http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages with these options being used: >Search package directories > >Keywords: diff > >Search on: > [X] Package names only > [ ] Descriptions > >Allow searching on subwords: [X] > >Distribution: > [ ] unstable > [ ] testing > [ ] stable > [ ] any > >Section: > [ ] main > [ ] contrib > [ ] non-free > [ ] non-US > [ ] any > >Searching is very straightforward, but quite flexible: > > * Searches on package names should include a single word > * Standard boolean logic with 'and' and 'or' can be used > * Even when searching on subwords is not checked, appending an > asterisk, '*', to the end of a keyword will allow subword > searching for that word. > * Subword searching only checks for arbitrary suffixes, not prefixes. ---- It was not a big problem since the FreeBSD search engine promptly located information on the "xxdiff" file: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=diff&stype=all Their search engine held information on where the homepage of the package was. It is here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/textproc/xxdiff/pkg-descr A homepage of the package is definitely here: http://xxdiff.sourceforge.net/ ___________ I got the e-mail address to send this message to, from this webpage: http://www.debian.org/intro/organization Craig Carey New Zealand
