Re: [Guix Website] A Search Page for Packages

[Ludovic Courtès]

Heya Danjela,

Daniela Lura <danielaluraa@gmail.com> skribis:

> Taking into consideration the suggestion made in this thread:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-05/msg00096.html, my
> mentor, Christopher Baines suggested me to write a script that serves a
> search page for packages using the search functionality within the Guix
> Data Service,
> https://data.guix.gnu.org/repository/1/branch/master/latest-processed-revision/packages?search_query=git&field=version&field=synopsis&after_name=&limit_results=100
> .
>
> The prototype page can be accessed through a test version of the Guix
> website that Chris deployed:
> http://guix-website-test.cbaines.net/packages/search

Cool!  To be clear, guix-website-test actually makes a search query on a
Data Service instance, right?  I guess that explains part of the
slowness, but maybe we could tweak nginx to keep search results in cache
for a few hours.

Florian raised an important issue regarding the possibility of denial of
service.  Ideas on how to mitigate that, either in the Data Service, or
nginx at guix.gnu.org?

> I'd like to know if you find the page useful so that I can hopefully start
> working on incorporating the search functionality into this page:
> https://guix.gnu.org/packages/.

I’d be happy to see that happen!  We would need the changes against
guix-artwork.git as well as (maybe) changes to the nginx config in
maintenance.git.  How should we proceed?

Thanks!

Ludo’.