Greetings all, For the past few months I have been providing an openSUSE package search at http://benjiweber.co.uk:8080/webpin, It has been providing search for over 100,000 packages and 16,000,000 files (buildservice, factory, official, thirdparty). I had hoped to be able to show off some of the newer features, like the one click install integration but that will have to wait for now. Judging by the fact that it was getting well over a thousand search requests a day I suspect it has not gone unnoticed that it has been unavailable for most of this week. Thanks to all those who e-mailed to ensure that I knew. This is unfortunately out of my control, it was hosted on an aged municipal server with dozens of active users, and now the inevitable has happend and the server has died. It is unlikely to be back within the next week. The system is designed (http://en.opensuse.org/PKGSearch-design) to allow multiple groups to provide search results, as well as multiple uses of the search data. So if legal issues of indexing repositories such as packman are a problem those indexes and web-page frontend can be held elsewhere. It would be nice if Novell/SUSE could provide the facilities for indexing the core repositories and build service, but having spoken to several employees it sounds like they do not have the resources. So if anyone else does have the resources and willingness to do so then please let me know. The requirements at present: - Shell access for running the trawler and maintenance (although someone else could be taught to do this) - mysql (with capability of customising server settings) - A few gigabytes of disk space to store the xml files while indexing, and the database + indexes themselves. - Java 6 - Tomcat 5 or Glassfish for hosting the web service. _ Benjamin Weber --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org