On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 02:37:17PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I installed plocate; during installation it gave messages suggesting it was > doing a scan, although it seemed awfully quick. > > After I ran locate, and again it missed directories it should have found: > locate -r "/\.hg$"
The conversion procedure from mlocate generally trusts that the database is correct. If you have bugs in the mlocate database, they will certainly carry forward through plocate. > 2. Delete /var/lib/plocate/plocate.db. But perhaps at least an empty file > with > the right permissions is required? Then rerun updatedb. Yes, you should just rm /var/lib/plocate/plocate.db. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: https://www.sesse.net/
