[gentoo-dev] locate/updatedb

[gentoo-dev] locate/updatedb

[Ayelet Goldin]

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Hi, 

at least on my computer locate used to segfault every
time i would try to locate something.. 
i searched among different distributions for patches..
(because i don't feel like trying to trace their C
code) and slackware's patch works.

in case anyone is interested, 
what i did is:
in the src_unpack i have:
    unpack ${A}
    echo "Applying Patch..."
    cd ${S}
    zcat
/usr/portage/sys-apps/findutils/findutils-4.1.diff.gz
| patch -p1 -E #Slackware patch

findutils-4.1.diff.gz is attached to this email.
(and can also be found in the slackware source tree
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.0/source/a/find/
)
(and locate doesn't segfault :-)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] locate/updatedb

[Dan Armak]

On Wednesday 01 August 2001 08:28, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> at least on my computer locate used to segfault every
> time i would try to locate something..
> i searched among different distributions for patches..
> (because i don't feel like trying to trace their C
> code) and slackware's patch works.
>
> in case anyone is interested,
> what i did is:
> in the src_unpack i have:
>     unpack ${A}
>     echo "Applying Patch..."
>     cd ${S}
>     zcat
> /usr/portage/sys-apps/findutils/findutils-4.1.diff.gz
>
> | patch -p1 -E #Slackware patch
>
> findutils-4.1.diff.gz is attached to this email.
> (and can also be found in the slackware source tree
> ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.0/source/a/find/
> )
> (and locate doesn't segfault :-)

Alright, I'm putting this into incoming.