Bug 345881

Summary:	sys-apps/mlocate-0.23.1 please add info to updatedb after emerge
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Felix Schuster <felix.schuster>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) <fauli>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	base-system, jlec
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Felix Schuster 2010-11-17 13:38:55 UTC

Because of masking slocate I have unmerged slocate und emerged mlocate (as suggested). When I was trying to run "locate" it fails with:

locate: can not stat () `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': No such file or directory

Searching the web I found out to run "updatedb" first.
Now it works. Perhaps the ebuild should do that instead of me (or any other user).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge mlocate
2.execute locate <pattern>
3.error

Comment 1 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-11-18 08:08:24 UTC

The ebuild installs a cronjob which is running on a daily basis. Adding a run to the ebuild would make the emerge and specially the reemerge last very long. Nevertheless a short info to the user might be nice, so assigning to maintainer for that.

Comment 2 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-11-21 14:57:08 UTC

Note added, thanks for the notice.