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 attachment 40547 [details, diff] 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
