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has caused the Debian Bug report #1117441,
regarding plocate: Ignore containers created with incus under /var/lib/incus in
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Package: plocate
Version: 1.1.23-1
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
When installing plocate together with incus, which might use /var/lib/incus as
storage backend, plocate might start looking into all the files in the
container file system, which would cause noise in the locate database (and
potentially create a very large database).
This could simply be achieved by appending /var/lib/incus to PRUNEPATHS.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=es_ES:es
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages plocate depends on:
ii adduser 3.152
ii libc6 2.41-12
ii libgcc-s1 14.2.0-19
ii libstdc++6 14.2.0-19
ii liburing2 2.9-1
ii libzstd1 1.5.7+dfsg-1
plocate recommends no packages.
Versions of packages plocate suggests:
ii powermgmt-base 1.38
ii systemd-sysv 257.8-1~deb13u2
-- no debconf information
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On Sun, Oct 05, 2025 at 08:15:59PM +0200, Enrique Garcia wrote:
> When installing plocate together with incus, which might use /var/lib/incus as
> storage backend, plocate might start looking into all the files in the
> container file system, which would cause noise in the locate database (and
> potentially create a very large database).
>
> This could simply be achieved by appending /var/lib/incus to PRUNEPATHS.
Hi,
plocate cannot add PRUNEPATHS for everything that someone might want to
exclude; if it's a separate file system type, we could probably consider
it, but as it stands, I'm going to close this as wontfix. Even more so
since for every exclusion I have, I tend to get complaints why plocate
doesn't find stuff in there :-)
/* Steinar */
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