(added mlocate maintainer msekleta in Ccs; hopefully that's a still valid address)
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote on Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 02:06:00PM +0000: > Debian is apparently switching to plocate as the the default > locate/mlocate provider [0], a bit faster and more disk-efficient. > Would it make sense to do the same in Fedora? > > I prepared a package [1, 2]. The code seems nice and clean enough. > I'd be happy to take it through review, but I'm not particular keen > on long-term maintenance… Having just tried I think it'd make sense, the difference is striking. Small db update is a bit slower but that's a background activity, and search really feels instant (tens of ms) compared to a handful of seconds. I think that'll require a bit more work though, and we can start by just having the package available it doesn't have to be the default right away (I remembered that there was a discussion but not where it had ended, so was surprised to find no package in main repos!) In particular I think we'll need to first rework mlocate to use alternatives for locate/updatedb, so plocate can use the same names while keeping both packages parallely installable. I guess it'd also be fine if the packages would just plain Conflict and overwrite each other but it's important the commands stay the same (In that case we can probably also get away by not including plocate-build in the package, the command converts mlocate db to plocate format and is probably not going to see any use) (I'm willing to help with the one-time transition to alternatives if that's the way forward, or the initial package integration, but I don't think it'd be reasonable to take plocate myself given my free time lately... Anyway, let's discuss where we want to go first) -- Dominique _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
