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Bug 337176

Summary: sys-apps/slocate - http://slocate.trakker.ca/ does not resolve
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Aleister <maxtaager>
Component: [OLD] Core systemAssignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 338380    
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Description Aleister 2010-09-13 22:31:55 UTC
http://slocate.trakker.ca/ dosent exists anymore maybe the whole slocate project is dead dunno?

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Mikael Magnusson 2010-09-22 20:30:57 UTC
Well, fwiw debian removed it (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=457565) more than two years ago.
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2010-09-22 21:02:04 UTC
i'm fine with that.  slocate has always given me grief for little to no reward.
Comment 3 Aleister 2010-09-22 21:12:33 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> i'm fine with that.  slocate has always given me grief for little to no reward.
> 
there is mlocate that replaces slocate, but the handbook needs to be updated. Pretty sure other distros have moved to that also
http://carolina.mff.cuni.cz/~trmac/blog/mlocate/
Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-12-18 17:14:45 UTC
slocate is out of tree, use mlocate