makewhatis / updatedb

[Rick Stevens]

karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> [repenting for top-posting]
> 
>>Evil Top-poster here:
>>
>>Solution for updatedb running forever:
>>
>>updatedb -f "types" was basically ignored, so I added /mnt to my -e
>>switch. The whole thing took about 5 minutes after fixing that running
>>manually.
> 
> 
> I found that updatedb -f "nfs,NFS" was ignored, too. So adding "/mnt,..."
> to -e was necessary for it to work quickly and correctly.

Hmmm.  Looking at the man page (note the marked stuff):

	-f fstypes <<--
		Exclude file systems in the comma-separated list
		dirs (<<--) from  the slocate database.

So, they talk about "fstypes" in the option description, but "dirs" in
the text (and "dirs" in the description of "-e").  So it appears that
"-f" is ignored or treated like "-e".  In a word, WTF??

>>Thanks Bob, and Rick, even though . . . well, you know.

Yeah, I do.
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