[CentOS-devel] Web based Package DB

Tue Jun 22 14:07:07 UTC 2010
Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>

Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 22/06/2010 14:24, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
>> IMHO, the most important thing is 'search' something like Rpmfind.net
> 
> Yes, good point. I've been looking at a few different search engines
> that we might be able to use here. The one thing that we need to do some
> level of work on is : weights. How do different parts of the metadata
> get weights to make them more or less significant.
> 

Have a look at the work Nikolay has done here:

http://pkg.org.ua/
http://www.lystor.org.ua/projects/personal/pkg-org-ua

Makes it very easy to find packages across the whole EL community. Lots 
of other nice features too.