bugzilla search is driving me crazy

Wolfram Schneider wosch at freebsd.org
Tue Dec 5 18:25:16 UTC 2017


On 5 December 2017 at 19:21, Wolfram Schneider <wosch at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I used the bugzilla search at https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/
>
> I searched for "linuxism"
>
> In the search box top left I get zero hits:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=linuxism
>
> I clicked on the result page on "Start a new search" and a page with
> "Simple Search" and "Advanced Search" opened.
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/query.cgi
>
> The simple search returns for "linuxism" 4 hits:
>
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&content=linuxism&no_redirect=1&order=Importance&query_format=specific
>
> The advanced search returns for "linuxism" 2 hits:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc=linuxism&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr
>
> So, we have 3 different search interfaces, and all returns a different
> result (0, 2, 4 hits). Crazy.

PS: there is also a problem with quotes. In the simple search I can
search with quotes, and get the same number of hits. In the advanced
search, the quotes changes the result, and I get now zero hits:

searching for "linuxism" (with quotes in the input field), 0 hits:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc=%22linuxism%22&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr

-Wolfram

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