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

No, my bad. Locate is indeed in there, but it's a typo. It'll be fixed
today.
Thanks :)

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 11:32 -0400, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
> 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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