Arch Linux

Description:

The package search page currently searches the pkgname and pkgdesc fields using the "icontains" field lookup. This is problematic when searching for certain packages with common "words." For example, "tea" (http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/tea/).

Query: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=tea

The query matches ins*tea*d and *tea*m in package descriptions, among other things.

Please consider including an "exact match" option (which is already provided by the AUR search interface) to show only those packages which match the pkgname field exactly.

Relevant code: http://projects.archlinux.org/archweb.git/tree/packages/views.py#n226

Potential solution (from a Django novice):

if form.cleaned_data['q']:
query = form.cleaned_data['q']
q = Q(pkgname__icontains=query) | Q(pkgdesc__icontains=query)
packages = packages.filter(q)
elif form.cleaned_data['x']:
query_x = form.cleaned_data['x']
x = Q(pkgname__iexact=query_x)
packages = packages.filter(x)

Please see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Help_talk:Style#Package_installation for additional information and rationale regarding this feature request. In short, we would like to create a wiki template that links to exact match package search results rather than directly linking to the i686/x86_64 version or PKGBUILD.