Roland Mainz wrote:
> Brock Pytlik wrote:
>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~bpytlik/ips-2672-v1/
>> has the patch.
>>
>> It makes case-insensitive search both possible and the default behavior.
>> For local search, there's an option ( -I though I'm definitely open to
>> alternatives -c?) that allows for case sensitive search. For protocol
>> reasons, remote search is only case insensitive. There is a small (IMO)
>> performance hit for both local and remote search. Case sensitive search
>> still takes the same amount of time: .5-.6 seconds but case-insensitive
>> search takes .7-.8 seconds.
>>
>> Remote search takes the biggest hit, going from .1-.2 seconds to .6-.7
>> seconds.
> 
> Just curious: What does "remote search" mean in this case ?

A request sent "over the wire" to a pkg.depotd server which then returns 
the results back "over the wire" to the client.

> Case-insenstive matching depends on the locale and AFAIK would require
> to pass the the locale token (e.g. LANG, LC_*, LC_ALL) to the remote
> site...

This is all done in python code afaik, so I'm not certain what rules apply.

-- 
Shawn Walker
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