updatedb borked

Miloslav Trmac mitr at volny.cz
Thu Dec 1 14:43:56 UTC 2005


Hello,
Steve G wrote:
> Tried using locate on rawhide machine...
> 
> [root at dhcp83-80 ~]# locate iso
> locate: can not open `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': No such file or directory
> [root at dhcp83-80 ~]# updatedb
> updatedb:/etc/updatedb.conf:2: unknown variable `DAILY_UPDATE'
> [root at dhcp83-80 ~]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/updatedb
> mlocate-0.11-1
> 
> Is this a known problem?
(In the future, please ask bugzilla whether it is a known problem, and
file it if not.)

Yes, this is known, just remove the DAILY_UPDATE variable. I'll write a
scriptlet to do that automatically.

I'm quite surprised nobody other has complained in the 20 days mlocate
is in rawhide ;-)

Thanks,
	Mirek




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