Bug 291013

Summary:	slocate ebuild for prefix
Product:	Gentoo/Alt	Reporter:	Stuart Shelton <srcshelton>
Component:	Prefix Support	Assignee:	Gentoo Prefix <prefix>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	IRIX
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	338380
Bug Blocks:
Attachments:	slocate-2.7-r8 ebuild

Description Stuart Shelton 2009-10-29 13:54:25 UTC

Rationale:

IRIX doesn't include an (s)locate tool as standard, and the only in-tree options are masked due to being non-prefix aware.

Furthermore, the slocate-3.x releases all rely on GNU libc's fts implementation whereas the 2.7 release includes its own fts with the source.

For this reason, I fixed-up slocate-2.7-r8 to build on IRIX (and, presumably, all other prefix platforms).  I thought this was better than porting slocate-2.7's fts implementation to a 3.x release, potentially introducing any number of unknown vulnerabilities/bugs.

For your consideration, please find attached the slocate-2.7-r8 ebuild and patches.

Comment 1 Stuart Shelton 2009-10-29 13:56:15 UTC

Created attachment 208638 [details]
slocate-2.7-r8 ebuild


In root's crontab, I have:

[ -x /opt/gentoo/usr/bin/updatedb ] && /opt/gentoo/usr/bin/updatedb -c -u && chmod 660 /opt/gentoo/var/lib/slocate/slocate.db

Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-12-18 17:15:00 UTC

slocate is out of tree, use mlocate