Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 444758
noarch packages are not found by exact name search
Last modified: 2008-06-26 16:22:47 EDT
Description of problem: Some packages will not be found when you search for their name in the package search. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 5.0.5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log into RHN 2. Click on package search in the top search bar or navigate to the product search page (/rhn/channels/software/Search.do) 3. Search for "gnome-user-docs" (or "m17n-db-telugu", or probably a lot of others I don't know about) Actual results: Search returns No Packages. Expected results: Search finds package Additional info:
Additional info: These packages were discovered by searching for various packages that returned from the SQL search in bug 222405 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=222405).
Hokay, so upon looking into this a bit more it appears to only happens to noarch packages when doing an exact name search. At least I think it's only noarch packages, all the packages i've found so far that exhibit this behavior are noarch. And the search only doesn't work for exact name searches, if you leave a word off the front or back of the package search it suddenly becomes findable.
TEST PLAN: ========= First - please regression-test, using the test plan for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=210188 Second - use the reproducer above.
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So it turned out that this doesn't have anything to do with noarch packages at all, except that most packages that have two '-'s in their name are noarch. The search regex was expecting all package searches with two '-'s to be in the name-version-arch format, and so wasn't finding packages in the name1-name2-name3 format. S'been fixed.
*** Bug 450824 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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