[arch-dev-public] [testing] mlocate replacing slocate

[Aaron Griffin]

On 11/3/07, Jason Chu <jason at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:26:25AM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> > James Rayner schrieb:
> > > mlocate has replaced slocate as the default locate implementation, this is
> > > currently in [testing]. This was requested on the bug tracker a while
> > > back[1].
> > >
> > > mlocate is used by Fedora at least and unlike slocate, no longer has the
> > > well known midnight updatedb crawl. In all other aspects it's compatible
> > > with and identical to slocate.
> > >
> > > James
> > >
> > > [1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4490
> > >
> > > As described by the README:
> > > mlocate is a locate/updatedb implementation.  The 'm' stands for "merging":
> > > updatedb reuses the existing database to avoid rereading most of the file
> > > system, which makes updatedb faster and does not trash the system caches as
> > > much.
> > > The locate(1) utility is intended to be completely compatible to slocate.
> > > It also attempts to be compatible to GNU locate, when it does not conflict
> > > with slocate compatibility.
> >
> > While I think this is a good thing, this list should be informed
> > _before_ such a change is made and before the [arch] list is informed,
> > and you should wait at least a day for any objections (don't wait for
> > confirmation though, because then nothing will happen). Aaron was always
> > pushing for more communication, so let's practice it.
> >
> > Despite of all that, I like your initiative.
>
> This was mentioned back on October 9th...
>
> http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-October/002119.html
>
> This is just James acting on the already existing confirmation.

Agreed. I poked the list a while back.