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[Jeremy Kolb <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>]

Ah my bad.  Sorry, I interpretted that as "It generally doesn't use it 
but now it does".  Thanks for the clarification.

Jeremy

Paul Mahon wrote:
> 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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