Fedora Documentation Search Engine

Gavin Henry ghenry at suretecsystems.com
Fri Jan 28 14:39:32 UTC 2005


<quote who="Stuart Ellis">
>
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:56:58 -0000 (GMT), "Gavin Henry"
> <ghenry at suretecsystems.com> said:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Has there been any discussion about this?
>>
>> I thinking along the lines of htdig/swish-e that indexes all man
>> pages/howto/README after every rpm is installed.
>>
>> Something like a post entry in the spec file, or similar.
>
> I haven't seen any on this list, but essentially this is a function of
> having a desktop search/indexing engine since there isn't a common
> format to this stuff.  The next release of yelp (GNOME help browser)
> will display info and man pages, but can't index the random txt, html,
> pdf etc. that goes into /usr/share/doc/.

We heavily use Swish-e (www.swish-e.org) for the fileservers we install.
This can handle html, xhtml, txt, pdf and the like.

Maybe something like this or a updatedocdb crontab, like slocate has and
we just put the standard doc pathnames in a config file. The customize the
web search page.

>
> As a non-technical workaround I wrote a Docbook section for the
> Installation Guide explaining how to find the various sets of
> documentation in Fedora, which is currently in my offcuts folder.  It's
> a bad situation for new users at the moment...
> --
>
> Stuart Ellis
> s.ellis at fastmail.co.uk
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