Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: mlocate
This is with mlocate 0.22.2-1ubuntu in Ubuntu 10.04.1.
I ran locate on some all-too-common search string, and was surprised to
see it list results such as:
/home/tv/.Private/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.*
there is absolutely no value in indexing the encrypted form of those,
and it just seems like a waste of cpu/disk/whatnot.
mlocate's inflexibility is problematic.. We can't do
PRUNENAMES="ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.*" as it has no clue about globbing.
PRUNEPATHS="/home/*/.Private" seems equally impossible.
PRUNENAMES=Private has false positives, but it seems to be the best that
is possible, and I've confirmed it to work.
** Affects: mlocate (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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mlocate should not index ~/.Private, there's nothing of interest there
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/662437
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