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[Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

I thought the statement "Sorcery doesn't use locate" was pretty clear...
it means that the locate command is not used in any sorcery script. Here
is the result of a grep -r from the sorcery/devel directory of p4:
devel/ChangeLog:          plus routines to locate grimoire/sorcery keys
devel/usr/sbin/gaze:## Display the section spells are located in
devel/usr/share/man/man1/gaze.1:those files are located, excludes sorcery 
state files.
devel/var/lib/sorcery/modules/libdepends:  locate base_deps
devel/var/lib/sorcery/modules/libgrimoire:  gpg_verify_signature 
"$(locate_spell_file $SFNAME)" $FILENAME "$(locate_spell_file $PFNAME)"
devel/var/lib/sorcery/modules/libgrimoire:## Given a file, locate_spell_file 
finds out where it really is within
devel/var/lib/sorcery/modules/libgrimoire:function locate_spell_file() {
devel/var/lib/sorcery/modules/libdispel:## Find out where a spell is located

You will please note that the locate command is not used. That's why
there has been no discussion of using locate in sorcery.

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 10:56 -0400, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
> If sorcery now requires the use of locate then shouldn't it be the 
> developer's job to install such a cron script by default?  Otherwise 
> this becomes a big annoyance for the user.
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> 
> Paul Mahon wrote:
> > Sorcery doesn't use locate, it generally uses find... if you were asking
> > why sorcery uses it.
> > If you were asking the more general question, "Why use locate?" Here's
> > why:
> > Updatedb can be scheduled to run at a time when you're not using the
> > computer (5am on Sundays is usually good for me), this keeps the db up
> > to date, and locating a file takes a fraction of a second. It takes
> > about as long to do an updatedb as it takes to do a 'find /' and with
> > locate you can do multiple lookups without having to search the whole HD
> > each time.
> > 
> > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 10:23 -0400, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
> > 
> >>But why use locate?  I never run updatedb and after awhile the db gets 
> >>horribly out of synch.  Updatedb also takes a ridiculous amount of time 
> >>to run.  What is locate doing in sorcery?  Why not use find?
> >>
> >>Jeremy
> >>
> >>
> >>Paul Mahon wrote:
> >>
> >>>locate is provided by findutils, which is still part of the base system.
> >>>You will need to run updatedb at least once as root to create the
> >>>locatedb file. I don't think it runs it automaticaly, and I don't think
> >>>it sets up a cron job to do it either.
> >>>
> >>>On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 09:15 -0500, sergey AT optimaltec.com wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>It looks like the latest devel sorcery is using `locate.' I can see the 
> >>>>messages
> >>>>that /var/cache/locatedb is missing. I don't think locate is part of the
> >>>>basesystem. Any reason for this?
> >>>>Thanks!
> >>>>
> >>>>Sergey.
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