Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] locate/updatedb

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

On Thu, November 30, 2006 15:31, Dick Middleton wrote:
> Heiko Zuerker wrote:
>
>
>>> I'm a
>>> bit puzzled because updatedb seems to need the following programs:
>>> code, frcode and bigram.  These don't seem to exist on the system.
>>
>> I guess that will require a few more changes, since you'll need a
>> writeable location for the db. Do you have enough ram? Otherwise you'll
>> need to mount it.
>
> I've got space on the 'hard-drive' but anyway it's configurable in
> updatedb.conf.
>
>> Get the source tarball for locate, maybe you find something in the
>> readme files.
>
> I'm not sure I'm so bothered I'm going build a new system just to get it
> working.
>
> Since nobody uses it (obviously) maybe it should be pruned from the
> system.

Or we fix it, so people can use it. ;-)

If you happen to fix it, you know where to send the patches to. :-)
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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
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