Re: boolean package search

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de>]

peanut butter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm sure any result of asking this question will make me feel like no
> more than an idiot but, I must admit, I cannot figure out how to properly
> perform a boolean search on Debian Packages.  A boolean search, as it's
> described on the Debian Packages page, makes it sound as though it's as
> simple as using the string "perl and www" to search for a package with
> a description containing both "perl" and "www".  Yet this nor any

Yes, that's how it was supposed to work.

> permutation of boolean syntax yeilds any results just as it does not
> when I search for two words that I pull directly from a package
> description (and, yes, I made the appropriate checks for the search
> such as checking "Descriptions" instead of 'Package names only").  Can
> anyone help the idiot?  Thanks.

Please read another comment on that page:

* Subword searching only checks for arbitrary suffixes, not prefixes.

Maybe that does already explain your problem?

However I'd expect *foo to produce a result if libfoo exists.

Regards,

	Joey

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