Re: limiting updatedb to files

2006-08-11 Thread Karl Berry
For now, I would recommend editing the updatedbshell script. Sure, it's no problem to solve it for myself :). perhaps we should have separate options for criteria to include a file, and criteria to exclude it, both added after the -prune. Yes, that sounds right. In a week or t

Re: limiting updatedb to files

2006-08-11 Thread James Youngman
On 8/11/06, Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi James and all, I'd like to limit updatedb to indexing files, or at least not index symlinks. However, the way the script is written, I don't see a way to make it happen. Using --findoptions='-type f' puts that at the beginning of the eventua

limiting updatedb to files

2006-08-11 Thread Karl Berry
Hi James and all, I'd like to limit updatedb to indexing files, or at least not index symlinks. However, the way the script is written, I don't see a way to make it happen. Using --findoptions='-type f' puts that at the beginning of the eventual find command (findutils 4.2.28, GNU/Linux, not tha