Re: excluding .svn and symlinks from locate db

2008-03-25 Thread Karl Berry
However, did you try using the --findoptions argument to updatedb? I hadn't tried it in a while. When I went back and experimented some more, I found it could do what I wanted. So thanks, and never mind the whole thing :). Happy finding, karl

Re: excluding .svn and symlinks from locate db

2008-03-24 Thread James Youngman
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The diff below (between stock 4.4.0 and the derived script that I > actually run) gives the flavor, although of course for any distributed > patch it would be generalized. If you're amenable to the idea, I could > work on

excluding .svn and symlinks from locate db

2008-03-24 Thread Karl Berry
Hi James, As I wrote some time ago, I like to exclude .svn files and symbolic links from the locate database (otherwise I'd have massive duplication of hits). Would you consider adding hooks to make this possible with the distributed version? I believe it would amount to two new environment vari