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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

Sorry about that, I did indeed mean to type 'local' not 'locate'. What a
lousy typo on my part :-( Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Just to be clear, sorcery will NOT use locate for anything, this was
purely an accident.

-Andrew


On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 11:40:11AM -0400, Paul Mahon wrote:
> 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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