Re: please test the new package searching - new version

1999-01-07 Thread James A. Treacy
The following have been added: Listing the Debian version the package is in (stable, etc) Splitting results over multiple pages if more than 20 Can now also restrict searches to particular releases (main, non-free, etc) Check out http://cgi.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/distrib/test and g

Re: please test the new package searching

1999-01-07 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 03:28:24PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > You should add a note, because one can't add the asterisk at > in front of 'sth', he should try 'libsth', since it is the most > common case. > The text under the search already has the sentence: An asterisk, '*', can be used as a

Re: security update url's

1999-01-07 Thread Darren Benham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 07-Jan-99 Michael Stone wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean here. As an example, go to > http://www.debian.org/security/1998/19980922 and follow the link at the > bottom of the page to get a copy of tcsh. Click the download button on > that page and you get a

Re: security update url's

1999-01-07 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Darren Benham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I decided not to track proposed-updates because, supposedly, the changed > package will soon be moved into the "real" location. If you put a link to > proposed-updates, you'd have to watch it for the package move and then update > the page(s) according

Re: please test the new package searching

1999-01-07 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 02:40:31PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > It adds the ability to restrict the search on package names only > (done using META keywords) and to use substrings, e.g. libgtk* . > This last item is what people have been screaming for. Hopefully > swish++ will implement more gen

RE: security update url's

1999-01-07 Thread Darren Benham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 07-Jan-99 Michael Stone wrote: > 1. wml::debian::security::fixes_link generates a link to the Packages > section of the web site, but that area doesn't track packages in > proposed-updates. Is there a standard way to generate a link into > proposed-updates, o

security update url's

1999-01-07 Thread Michael Stone
1. wml::debian::security::fixes_link generates a link to the Packages section of the web site, but that area doesn't track packages in proposed-updates. Is there a standard way to generate a link into proposed-updates, or should I just include an href in the wml? 2. fixes_link allows you to put Al