Because of masking slocate I have unmerged slocate und emerged mlocate (as suggested). When I was trying to run "locate" it fails with: locate: can not stat () `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': No such file or directory Searching the web I found out to run "updatedb" first. Now it works. Perhaps the ebuild should do that instead of me (or any other user). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge mlocate 2.execute locate <pattern> 3.error
The ebuild installs a cronjob which is running on a daily basis. Adding a run to the ebuild would make the emerge and specially the reemerge last very long. Nevertheless a short info to the user might be nice, so assigning to maintainer for that.
Note added, thanks for the notice.
