Most users who use an encrypted /home mount, will want to include /home in PRUNEPATHS. Trouble is, this is **NOT** secure, and brings a false sense of security because slocate < 3.0 will ignore that setting, and will index /home directories anyway !! The new slocate-3.1 will honor PRUNEPATHS properly. May I recommend marking slocate-3.1 stable, or at worst, putting a BIG warning in /etc/updatedb.conf ? Many thanks
Thx Joël for the notification. I see it fixed in v3.0 beta r3 but I'm not sure wether it affects 2.7? base-system please advise.
You're welcome. Yes, as stated in the bug summary (I forgot to copy it in the description): it *does* affect 2.7-r8.
having a file listing of an encrypted partition is hardly something to worry over, but i guess some people wear bigger tin foil hats than i why exactly do you think PRUNEPATHS does not work in 2.7 ? the ChangeLog says PRUNEFS was being ignored in the early 3.0 versions, it doesnt say anything about PRUNEPATHS or PRUNEFS with the 2.7 versions
The PRUNEPATHS variable is being ignored by slocate-2.7-r8 on my machine as well (it's pretty easy to check...). I've remerged and rerun updatedb to make sure.
Same here with slocate-2.7-r8. Re-emerging slocate or removing /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db did not help. $ cat /etc/updatedb.conf # /etc/updatedb.conf: config file for slocate # $Id: updatedb.conf,v 1.23 2007/08/08 16:22:32 lu_zero Exp $ # This file sets variables that are used by updatedb. # For more info, see the updatedb(1) manpage. # Filesystems that are pruned from updatedb database PRUNEFS="afs auto autofs cifs devfs devpts eventpollfs futexfs gfs hugetlbfs iso9660 mqueue ncpfs nfs NFS nfs4 nfsd nnpfs pipefs proc ramfs rpc_pipefs selinuxfs sfs shfs smbfs sockfs spufs subfs supermount sysfs tmpfs udf usbfs vperfctrfs" # Paths which are pruned from updatedb database # by HS #PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /var/tmp /root/.ccache" PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /var/tmp /root/.ccache /usr/portage" $ cat /etc/cron.daily/slocate #! /bin/sh if [ -x /usr/bin/updatedb ] then if [ -f /etc/updatedb.conf ] then nice /usr/bin/updatedb else nice /usr/bin/updatedb -f proc fi fi $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, 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INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
