The Ubuntu Foundations team was recently looking at an issue with mlocate[1] and the effect it has on all users of Ubuntu. While that specific issue is fixable there are also issues[2,3] with keeping PRUNEFS and PRUNEPATHS current in updatedb.conf. So we ended up questioning the usefulness of installing mlocate by default on systems at all. We believe that find is an adequate replacement for mlocate but want to hear from you about use cases where it may not be. I'll start with a personal example:
"I don't remember (because I need to know so infrequently) where the meta-release file is cached on disk by update-manager and use locate to find it. The find command itself is inadequate because the cached file exists in both /home and /var." [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880507 [2] http://launchpad.net/bugs/827841 [3] http://launchpad.net/bugs/1823518 Thanks, -- Brian Murray -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel