Opened 15 years ago
Closed 7 years ago
#22906 closed request (wontfix)
mlocate: a locate/updatedb implementation
| Reported by: | ryan@… | Owned by: | raimue (Rainer Müller) |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ryan@…, mirimiri66@…, bsleveritt@…, cooljeanius (Eric Gallager), petrrr, mikaela.suomalainen@…, tsitelov (Dmitry Tsitelov), Polyergic (Shad Sterling) | |
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Description
From its website, https://fedorahosted.org/mlocate/
mlocate is a locate/updatedb implementation. The 'm' stands for "merging": updatedb reuses the existing database to avoid rereading most of the file system, which makes updatedb faster and does not trash the system caches as much.
The locate(1) utility is intended to be completely compatible to slocate. It also attempts to be compatible to GNU locate, when it does not conflict with slocate compatibility.
Change History (12)
comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by ryan@…
| Cc: | ryan@… added |
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comment:3 Changed 15 years ago by raimue (Rainer Müller)
| Owner: | changed from macports-tickets@… to raimue@… |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
| Version: | 1.8.1 |
Working on this, will have to patch it a bit to use getmntinfo() instead of getmntent().
comment:4 Changed 15 years ago by raimue (Rainer Müller)
Submitted patch upstream, https://fedorahosted.org/mlocate/ticket/15
comment:9 Changed 10 years ago by calvin@…
I am a fan of mlocate (on various linux systems I run) but is it really necessary on Mac OS X?
Mac OS X comes with a locate and updatedb utility as explained here - http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/02/enable-and-use-the-locate-command-in-the-mac-os-x-terminal/
comment:10 Changed 8 years ago by tsitelov (Dmitry Tsitelov)
| Cc: | tsitelov added |
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comment:11 Changed 7 years ago by Polyergic (Shad Sterling)
| Cc: | Polyergic added |
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comment:12 Changed 7 years ago by raimue (Rainer Müller)
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
FedoraHosted was closed and I cannot find the patch anymore that I had submitted to upstream back then.
macOS locate improved over time and updatedb is no longer as slow as it used to be. As a mlocate port did not happen over the years, I will now close this request.
Cc Me!