Bugzilla Bug 65560

The bug in slocate 2.7 renders the support for $LOCATE_PATH useless: Each new
path/Database specification, either explicit from commandline with "-d" or
implicit with the default path, overwrote the potential previous specified
paths/databases (by $LOCATE_PATH or -d).

I fixed this by appending new paths to the existing ones (see attached patch).

Besides that I also fixed a buffer overflow (4 bytes) as there was not enough
memory allocated for pointers in SLOCATE_PATH to also hold the terminating
NULL.

I also mailed the author of slocate (Kevin Lindsay) a month ago but did not get
a reply. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:




# emerge info
Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.3-
gentoo-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.3-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=athlon -march=athlon -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer
-funroll-
loops -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -falign-functions=4 -pipe
-ffast-math 
-mmmx -m3dnow"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.1/
share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/
config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/afs/C /etc/afs/afsws /etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=athlon -march=athlon -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer
-funroll-
loops -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -falign-functions=4 -pipe
-ffast-math 
-mmmx -m3dnow"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo
ftp://ftp.
tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.dk/mirrors/gentoo/
http://gentoo.
oregonstate.edu/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X aalib afs alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr
crypt 
cups dga dvd encode fbcon foomaticdb gb gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 guile
idea 
imap imlib jikes jpeg kerberos lcms ldap libwww lirc mad matrox mbox mikmod mmx 
motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib pic plotutils png
python qt 
quicktime readline samba sdl spell sse ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype usb
wmf 
x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"

Created an attachment (id=40547) [edit]
Appends new database path rather than overwrite

you send this upstream ?

Sorry, what do you mean?

I also imformed the author of slocate before I reported this bug here. But since he did not answer so far I found it a good idea that this bug gets at least fixed by gentoo.

duh, you even told me you talked to upstream in your original report

sorry about that ;)

fixed in 2.7-r6