I have written about this before, together with another subject and this has been ignored:
I use programmes on my computer which are not in the standard repositories. Some of them require more than one repo, e.g. when special programming languages (e.g. python) are involved. To check whether these are updated I used the packet search site (https://software.opensuse.org/search) and when I type in e.g. firejail, jitsi, etc I get no results, even though when I check manually e.g. the home:tiwai repo I find that the repo for Leap15 which includes firejail is available. At the moment it seems that the packet search site includes only the main repos and therefore it is useless if I look for other software. Is there ar reason for this or will this be updated?
Hi
Check the settings (spanner on the right) on the search site and make sure it’s for all distributions and check the box for development packages. It can take time for things to propagate. If you have a openSUSE Build Service account the search is much better for a package eg ‘osc se firejail --binary’.
Thanks, malcolmlewis, I checked the spanner and set it to Leap15 as that is the OS I want the package for. Previously this system worked and I received several (unofficial) repos which had the software, e.g. firejail or jitsi or electrum, etc. Now I find nothing at all. If I need to search for a package in my repos I can use the zypper se option or Yast. But if I want to find if someone built a certain rpm package for e.g. firejail I am lost now. The packet search won’t work any more for this and I wonder why. I had additional packages from marec2000, Herbster0815, tiwai, etc which I found this way for different software and now you cannot find those any more and I think this is a step backwards.
It finds it if you select “All Distributions”. I am not sure whether this is exactly a bug - from software management point of view home (or other development repositories) are different from base distribution repositories. But confusing is it indeed.
Thanks arvidjaar, it is confusing. I thought you search for something running in your specific OS. For example if I look for jitsi it comes up for Tumbleweed and Leap42.3 and that does not help anyone like me wanting it for Leap15. I find it especially confusing that with all distributions there are lists for Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian as well. I would not have thought someone using these distributions is going to an opensuse website to look for packages.
This is a known recently-developed problem, at the moment. I believe a bug has been opened to get the distribution button/actions fixed on the Software web page.