On 2019-01-03 Andreas Metzler <ametz...@bebt.de> wrote: > On 2019-01-03 me <eysnbe...@liwest.at> wrote: > > Package: locate > > Version: 4.4.2-9+b1 > > Severity: normal
> > instead of including the paths handed over through --localpath, oder > > instead of following the paths edscribed in updatedb.conf, updatedb > > produces an error, that the variable does not exist, or the switch in > > unkown. > > It DOES search my other hard disks, though, if I remove /media from > > the prunepaths. Baiscally that was, what I wanted, so, if it is > > supposed to stay this way, man- pages need to be updated. > Hello, > Could you please decribe exactly > * what you were trying to do > * what exactly you tried and > * quote any error messages? > Just to illustrate, --localpaths (note the "s"!) seems to work exactly > as described: > ametzler@argenau:~$ mkdir -p /tmp/include1 /tmp/include2 && touch > /tmp/include1/fil1 /tmp/include2/file2 I missed to quote the updatedb invocation: ametzler@argenau:~$ updatedb --output=/tmp/foo.db --localpaths='/tmp/include1 /tmp/include2' > ametzler@argenau:~$ locate --database=/tmp/foo.db '*' > /tmp/include1 > /tmp/include1/fil1 > /tmp/include2 > /tmp/include2/file2
