search engine for FreeBSD PRs..

Steven Kreuzer skreuzer at f2o.org
Mon Apr 23 19:14:38 UTC 2007


On Apr 23, 2007, at 1:53 PM, John Baldwin wrote:

> If you use FireFox and surf over to http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/  
> you will
> see that if you click on the search engines menu, you will be able  
> to add a
> new "FreeBSD PRs" search to your list of search engines.

Wow, last night I actually wrote an PR search plugin for firefox and  
I was going to send an email about it later today.
Looks like you beat me too it.

>
> The way this search works is that you can type a PR number (or cat/ 
> number,
> such as kern/12345) in the search box and it will pull up that PR.   
> Does
> anyone else find this useful?

Yes, I find it very useful as a quick way to reference PRs

> If so, I think it would be neat to add it to
> either the front page (you can have multiple searches for a page,  
> so we could
> also add a generic FreeBSD.org search too if desired),
> http://www.freebsd.org/support.html, or
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?query.

People have already written a few for ports, man pages and searching  
the site in general.
You can find them at:

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html? 
name=freebsd.org&sherlock=yes&opensearch=yes&submitform=Search

SK



More information about the freebsd-doc mailing list