Re: --findoptions no

2008-04-01 Thread James Youngman
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't think of a way that doesn't involve editing the updatedb > script. Sorry. > > (So, some practical examples of --findoptions would seem a good thing to > add to the manual.) > > Anyway, so now I'm back to my

Re: --findoptions no

2008-03-31 Thread Karl Berry
I can't think of a way that doesn't involve editing the updatedb script. Sorry. (So, some practical examples of --findoptions would seem a good thing to add to the manual.) Anyway, so now I'm back to my original request for a customization option. How about this: a new envvar POSTPRUNE?

Re: --findoptions no

2008-03-27 Thread James Youngman
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I spoke too soon. --findoptions is not being sufficient. I tried simply > > updatedb --findoptions="-type f" > > to try to get it to only index plain files. > > But this had the highly undesirable side effect of ignorin

--findoptions no

2008-03-26 Thread Karl Berry
I spoke too soon. --findoptions is not being sufficient. I tried simply updatedb --findoptions="-type f" to try to get it to only index plain files. But this had the highly undesirable side effect of ignoring the pruning expressions. Looking at the code: $find $SEARCHPATHS $FINDOPTIONS