Bug#1108737: Please also index metadata like file ownership
On Sat, Jul 05, 2025 at 01:12:36PM +0200, Andras Korn wrote: > Why not keep tag it helpwanted instead and leave it open? Maybe someone will > bite. "wontfix" sounds very final, as if you were against the feature in > principle. I doubt I would accept a patch for it, TBH. Someone could fork and do whatever they'd want, of course. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: https://www.sesse.net/
Bug#1108737: Please also index metadata like file ownership
On Fri, Jul 04, 2025 at 01:40:42PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: Hi, > > it has often happened that I wanted to efficiently find files based on not > > their name, but their metadata -- such as who owns them, or when they were > > modified, or some combination thereof. > > > > Of course, find(1) can do all that (albeit very slowly), but since updatedb > > scans all directories anyway, it might as well record and index this > > information as well, in addition to the filenames. > > > > Perhaps, instead of inventing a new syntax, include a plocate-find that > > supports the same syntax as find(1)? > > Hi, > > Thanks for the feature request. > > Given the amount of work and the increased size of plocate.db, I doubt I will > be doing this. I can close this bug or mark it as wontfix, depending on how > visible you want it. :-) Why not keep tag it helpwanted instead and leave it open? Maybe someone will bite. "wontfix" sounds very final, as if you were against the feature in principle. András -- I, for one, am a great fan of Roman numeral puns.
Bug#1108737: Please also index metadata like file ownership
On Fri, Jul 04, 2025 at 11:07:39AM +0200, Andras Korn wrote: > it has often happened that I wanted to efficiently find files based on not > their name, but their metadata -- such as who owns them, or when they were > modified, or some combination thereof. > > Of course, find(1) can do all that (albeit very slowly), but since updatedb > scans all directories anyway, it might as well record and index this > information as well, in addition to the filenames. > > Perhaps, instead of inventing a new syntax, include a plocate-find that > supports the same syntax as find(1)? Hi, Thanks for the feature request. Given the amount of work and the increased size of plocate.db, I doubt I will be doing this. I can close this bug or mark it as wontfix, depending on how visible you want it. :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: https://www.sesse.net/
Bug#1108737: Please also index metadata like file ownership
Package: plocate Version: 1.1.23-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Hi, it has often happened that I wanted to efficiently find files based on not their name, but their metadata -- such as who owns them, or when they were modified, or some combination thereof. Of course, find(1) can do all that (albeit very slowly), but since updatedb scans all directories anyway, it might as well record and index this information as well, in addition to the filenames. Perhaps, instead of inventing a new syntax, include a plocate-find that supports the same syntax as find(1)? Thanks! András -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.0 APT prefers stable-security APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (350, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: 6.12.33+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: runit (via /run/runit.stopit) LSM: AppArmor: enabled -- Smile... people will wonder what you've been up to.
