Re: Bug in the updatedb script

2006-10-11 Thread James Youngman
Using GNU sort allows the use of the -z flag, which will ensure that locate can correctly process path names containing a newline. Hence there is an advantage to using GNU sort with GNU findutils. However, it is not essential, if you don't want to process filenames containing newlines. The loca

Bug in the updatedb script

2006-10-11 Thread Ulli.Linzen
Dear Developers, dear Package-Maintainer, after upgrading the findutils package for Solaris from 4.1.20 to Version 4.2.27, the updatedb script does not work anymore. In the script, there is a hardcoded invocation of /usr/local/bin/sort. Well, this location for sort might be true for your Systems,