Feedback for New RPM Package Search
We have introduced a new RPM Package search and would like feedback on the experience.
Responses
Do you mean this: https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/channels/software/Search.do
Seems painfully slow to me.
Red Hat
Community Member
69 points
It is not only very slow but it finishes with error sometimes (after almost three minutes of waiting): The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request POST /rhn/channels/software/Search.do. Reason: Error reading from remote server
Pro
596 points
It works fine for me today, I have issues with the search before not getting the right package on time and have to check with support to find it. not sure what you would like to check.
Guru
6827 points
Thomas, I tried https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/channels/software/Search.do ==just now==, just a moment before typing this and it seems to produce the same rpm search experience I've seen before.
Red Hat
Active Contributor
286 points
Apologies to those that have commented all ready. This discussion was meant to be linked from the new package browser and it was not.
You can find it here https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser
Thank you,
Guru
6827 points
I personally like it, however, I noticed at the entry of it, it only loads 1000 results; I know there's more than 1000 rpms for even a Linux distro based on the number of rpms in a given RHEL distro binary ISO DVD.
From the web page:
1000 results found based on your active subscriptions.
That being said, if I type a single letter to get a list of all rpms beginning with "a" it still says (same results for any other letter)
1000 results found based on your active subscriptions.
One possible suggestion; have a drop-down menu to select between versions of a given product, such as different major versions of RHEL for RHEL products, different versions of Satellite based on Satellite products, and so forth.
Then if you only wanted to see (for instance) glibc rpms for RHEL 7, you could constrain the search to RHEL 7 without other major versions distracting your results. Just a thought... =however= as I try it, I entered "glibc" for instance and hit enter, and I was able to have additional version selections in a new set of drop-down menus that was useful.
It seems impressive though.
Red Hat
Community Member
85 points
Looks a lot nicer for sure. However: The new package search requires me to choose a given subscription. However, some customers want to search all available subscriptions to figure out which subscription they need to get a certain package (most prominent example is probably mod_jk for my customers). So please include an option "search all available subscriptions" or something similar.
The new tool is really nice.
I just have been unable to find it from browsing. What pages on access.redhat.com link to it?
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