Shawn Walker wrote:
> Roland Mainz wrote:
> > Brock Pytlik wrote:
> >> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~bpytlik/ips-2672-v1/
> >> has the patch.
> >>
> >> It makes case-insensitive search both possible and the default behavior.
> >> For local search, there's an option ( -I though I'm definitely open to
> >> alternatives -c?) that allows for case sensitive search. For protocol
> >> reasons, remote search is only case insensitive. There is a small (IMO)
> >> performance hit for both local and remote search. Case sensitive search
> >> still takes the same amount of time: .5-.6 seconds but case-insensitive
> >> search takes .7-.8 seconds.
> >>
> >> Remote search takes the biggest hit, going from .1-.2 seconds to .6-.7
> >> seconds.
> >
> > Just curious: What does "remote search" mean in this case ?
> 
> A request sent "over the wire" to a pkg.depotd server which then returns
> the results back "over the wire" to the client.
> 
> > Case-insenstive matching depends on the locale and AFAIK would require
> > to pass the the locale token (e.g. LANG, LC_*, LC_ALL) to the remote
> > site...
> 
> This is all done in python code afaik, so I'm not certain what rules apply.

I don't know it either but right now it looks like that the code only
works by accident and this doesn't feel right...

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Bye,
Roland

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