[Frugalware-devel] mlocate to base

Gabriel C crazy at frugalware.org
Tue Nov 6 20:32:14 CET 2007


VOROSKOI Andras wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Today I have pushed mlocate to base-extra.
> 
> You can check it out here:
> http://carolina.mff.cuni.cz/~trmac/blog/mlocate/
> 
> As you can see mlocate is much faster than slocate, backward compatible
> and it's tested in Fedora since a while.
> 
> So I would like to see it as the default locate implementation in Frugalware.
> What do you think?
> 
> I also urge you to test it. I hope there is no bug in the package.

Go for it , I actually forgot to push it but I use mlocate for quite some time now.

Anyway please _don't_ run  updatedb on install / upgrade that is not going to work , overkill on upgrade and
plain broken when you do fresh installs .. That should be done on next cron run.

crazy


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