Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3349 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Thursday 2005-04-28 at 13:32 +0200, Hartmut Meyer wrote:

> > A few versions back, it was even easier, because there was an rpm to get
> > our local SDB server. Alas, it no longer exists. :-/
> >
> > Maybe they think that every body has a full-time internet connection!
> 
> No.
> 
> The technolgy behind the SUSE support data base has changed and with this 
> change it was no longer possible to provide a local version of it (as it used 
> to be). The SUSE support data base used to be a "stand allone 
> apllication" (http://sdb.suse.de) but it is now integral part of the portal 
> (http://portal.suse.com) which offers quite a bit more than just the SDB.

I know, I remember that.

> There was a script that extracted the current content of the (old) SDB and 
> dumped it to the local filesystem. This was then provided as a RPM with the 
> distribution.
> 
> I'm not saying it couldn't have been developed (again). Wheter or not that is 
> the case I simply don't know.

Right, that's what I'm thinking about. ;-)

My only alternative is to use wget to replicate the html articles locally, 
and then perhaps configure htdig to get my local engine running. 

As a matter of fact, I no longer rely on the suse sdb search engine, 
because it fails to find what I'm looking for (it doesn't even find 
articles I remember, and I printed). Instead, I go to the historical list, 
and visually inspect all titles till I see one that looks promissing for 
the problem I try to solve.

:-/

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson