On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 08:55:44PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 02:13:07PM -0500, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 4:54 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek@in.waw.pl wrote:
On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 01:52:43PM -0500, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 12:19 PM Ben Cotton bcotton@redhat.com wrote:
== How To Test == # Install `plocate` (`sudo dnf install plocate --allowerasing`) # Wait for `plocate-updatedb.service` to finish (`sudo systemctl start plocate-updatedb.service`) # Use `plocate pattern` or `plocate -r <regexp>` to search for files.
Works for me. Also fixes this old bug where mlocate pruned bind mount locations, which resulted in /home on Btrfs not being indexed. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=906591
Note for laptop users, plocate-updatedb.service contains ConditionACPower=true, so if you're getting errors locating files, it might be because the initial database isn't being created because no AC power.
Ack. (I assume that most people have the laptop on AC at least some of the time, so the db will get updated sooner or later. In the worst case, if the laptop is only charged while off or suspended, it would be necessary to remove the conditional. But I think that's a rare case, and the default is good.)
== User Experience == Users should not notice the difference. Installing `plocate` automatically removes `mlocate`. The new implementation is generally compatible with the old one in all common cases, and provides some additional options.
I'm definitely noticing a difference. I'm not sure it was ever correct that updatedb.conf was pruning bind mounts on Fedora. It's not the mlocate default, but it is what Fedora has been using for years (defacto default on Fedora).
That's a known-fixed bug. I didn't mention it because, well, it was considered a bug in mlocate. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
It's not a fixed bug.
Sorry, I meant that it's fixed in plocate, which simply does exhibit this behaviour.
Ah, OK, this has been cleared up in another part of the thread ;)
Zbyszek