Posts Categorized: webpin

I have added support for searching by package names only. This was one of the most requested features. I would like to make the normal search “just work” as much as possible and rank relevant search results highly. However, there do seem to be some good use cases for only searching package names. You can… Read more »

Thanks to everyone who has been sending me bug reports and suggestions for webpinstant This evening I Fixed an indexing bug that meant searches for some exact-match filenames returned no results. This will require re-indexing all repositories at some point. Here’s a search that wasn’t working and is now fixed Thanks cb400f. Fixed linking to… Read more »

A few years ago I wrote a tool called webpin that allowed people to search for openSUSE packages across all openSUSE repositories, both by package names and their contents. This was useful for finding where a package for a particular file was located. openSUSE had an awful lot of separate package repositories (There are now… Read more »