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Re: updatedb files portable?
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Peter Fales |
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Re: updatedb files portable? |
Date: |
Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:20:48 -0600 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.1i |
locdb-solaris.old is attached.
Building this db using "updatedb --old-format" flushed out another
bug in 4.2.26. The first line of updatedb is
#! /bin/sh
and around line 249 we have
if ! bigrams=ktemp -t updatedbXXXXXXXXX then
However (sadly), the solaris bin/sh doesn't support the "!" operation.
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On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 07:25:46PM +0000, James Youngman wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 08:02:50AM -0600, Peter Fales wrote:
>
> > Using the "new" database looks like it will work for us. I was under
> > the impression that the format changed between 4.1 and 4.2.26, so
> > that --old-format was needed to stay compatible with 4.1, but that's
> > is apparently not the case.
>
> I try quite hard not to create gratuitous incompatibilities.
>
> > And, yes, new format databases seem to be portable across our
> > various platforms. Thanks for the help.
>
> I should add in some test suite tests that relate to continued support
> for the old database format. Could you please generate a locate
> database in the old format on Solaris (with any version of findutils,
> but ideally both 4.1.x and 4.2.27) so that I can use it as a test
> input? Ideally this would contain less than 5 files or so, so that we
> an avoid any need for a copyright assignment. Any old junk filenames
> will do (but not anything confidential obviously).
>
> Many thanks,
> James.
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- Re: updatedb files portable?, Andreas Metzler, 2005/12/10
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- Re: updatedb files portable?, James Youngman, 2005/12/10