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  • From: George Sherwood <pilot AT beernabeer.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [SM-Discuss] slocate vs locate
  • Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 19:50:28 -0400

I was working on fixing this bug:
http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8165

and while trying to learn a little bit about locate/updatedb, I saw that
quite a few distributions are using slocate
http://www.geekreview.org/slocate/ vice the version from findutils.

Is this something we should look at? Probably good reasons for using
the version that we are now. I really don't know much about this, but
secure always sounds good.:) We would have to modify findutils to not
build locate, but I don't think it is too hard.

George Sherwood





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