pre-R5 deficiencies

[Matt McLean]

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Ira Joseph Woodhead wrote:

> What is the reasoning behind including a findutils in pre-R5 that has no
> updatedb binary?? It even has scripts that use updatedb (cron jobs) but
> no updatedb binary. Furthermore, 'rpm -qlp *.rpm' reveals that it is not
> included in any package.

<snip>

This was a decision made by redhat.  According to a note from Erik Troan
in the spec file, you're supposed to use Secure Locate (slocate) instead.
As for why a cron script that uses updatedb is still included, I don't
know. :-)

m.


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