* Andreas Metzler [Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:32:47 +0100]: > Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Andreas Metzler [Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:31:29 +0100]: > [...] > >> I did consider it, but afaik the pulled-in-by-dependency-szenario is > >> going to be rare.
> > Well, dlocate has 2500 popcon installations, vs. slocate's 1500. So, I'm > > still convinced findutil's locate's cron script should either only run if > > it's the configured locate, *or* not run unless enabled in > > /etc/default/locate. > > But it's your package and I know how to disable one script for cron, so > > I won't mention it further. :-) > Perhaps it is possible to make dlocate work with mlocate's tools. mlocate doesn't ship any tools like /usr/lib/locate/frcode (which dlocate uses), only locate and updatedb. > .1 comes from upstream. It is possible for users to uses updatedb to > index their own filetree. (With mlocate it is probably not necessary.) So, uhm, I'll go with renaming to .1 in mlocate. > How does mlocate.updatedb handle updatedb.conf? Does the binary read > the file on every execution or does it also rely on wrapper script > (the cron job) to source it? findutils works the latter way and the > file is therefore misnamed, it is find-daily.defaults, not > updatedb.conf. The updatedb binary directly reads updatedb.conf. > You do not plan on sharing the configuration file between packages, do > you? Well, what do you suggest? How does dpkg react when unpacking a conffile that is the conffile of another package? > [...] > > same upload, findutils gets: > > Breaks: dlocate (<= 0.5-0.3) > I thought Breaks was not yet handled by dpkg/apt and was therefore > pointless? apt supports it since 0.7.0. > > 1c. I submit a bug against dlocate asking for > > Depends: locate | findutils (<= 4.2.31-1) > plus a sourcechange to actually work with both. What change? Ah, you mean using /usr/bin/locate.findutils, and only if that's not present, fail back to `dpkg-divert --truename /usr/bin/locate`? > Sounds basically ok. I will try to make some real progress on the > weekend. Thanks, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens. -- Michel de Montaigne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]