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