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

[Tobias Powalowski]

Am Sonntag, 4. November 2007 schrieb 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.
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can we start signoff?
for me it works on x86_64

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Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
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