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@samueldr i think search.nixos.org is now ready to take place of packages-explorer. Am I missing something?

See the issues referencing this PR

(Unrelated to the search itself, but a task to validate for the transition.)

We have to ensure that the redirects will transmit the query string and the anchor. I believe the anchor is fine, as this is done by the browser on redirect, the server has no way to influence it.

This is to ensure that an old link to /nixos/packages.html?*whatever* gets redirected to search.nixos.org/packages?*whatever*.

The options page is the one that requires a bit more finesse. /nixos/options.html#something needs to be redirected to search.nixos.org/options?query=something. This can either be done by having a dummy html page that handles rewriting to a query string at the location of the old options.html page, or by having the Elm app know about that specific. There are many links online linking to that anchor-based permalink scheme.

@samueldr thank you thank you thank you :) I will go over the issues and try to address them.

And thank you again for your hard work. I personally know it's not easy re-implementing such a fundamental part of the website.

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Blockers were now fixed

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Note for people stumbling over this PR from other issues:
This changed search is now located at https://search.nixos.org/packages (https://search.nixos.org/ will redirect there too) and you should be auto redirected there from the old https://nixos.org/nixos/packages.html