[Hardy] dlocate depends on locate but not mlocate
Bug #225419 reported by
Andrew
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| dlocate (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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| dlocate (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: dlocate
After trying to figure out why my daily cron jobs were running pretty late I noticed that locate and mlocate each have their own jobs installed. I went about seeing if I could remove locate from my computer and only use mlocate. The problem is that dlocate, a package I use quite often depends on findutils or locate.
I am not sure if dlocate depends on binaries from locate or the database so I am not sure if I can safely delete /etc/cron.
Either way, I should think dlocate should depend on mlocate or locate (or slocate too) since they should all provide the necessary functionality right?
Versions:
dlocate 0.94
locate 4.2.32-1ubuntu2
mlocate 0.18-2ubuntu1
| Changed in dlocate: | |
| status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Revision history for this message
| robepisc (robepisc) wrote | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| Iain Lane (laney) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in dlocate: | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
| Changed in dlocate: | |
| status: | Fix Released → Unknown |
| Changed in dlocate: | |
| status: | Unknown → Won't Fix |
| Changed in dlocate (Debian): | |
| status: | Won't Fix → Fix Released |
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According to the Debian mantainer (see Debian bug #453952), dlocate can't work with mlocate.
In fact, mlocate doesn't provide a way to create a file DB from a given file list (as dlocate requires); fileutils' locate, instead, allows it with its frcode tool.