pre-R5 deficiencies

pre-R5 deficiencies

[Ira Joseph Woodhead]

Hi all,

Perhaps I'm rehashing something but I couldn't find it searching the
archives, so:

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.

After quite a lot of effort installing pre-R5 a couple of weeks ago I
reverted back to my creaky barely-R4 from ages ago because I was so
shocked that the most useful tool for feeling your way in a new
installation was simply not there. It gives the impression of a very
not-ready product, which is counter to the impression I get from you
folks. 

I just checked back today after a couple of weeks to find a few packages
updated on 15 Jan, but not findutils.

Just curious!

Cheers,
ira

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Re: pre-R5 deficiencies

[Jeff Dubrule]

On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 05:07:22PM -0500, Ira Joseph Woodhead wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Perhaps I'm rehashing something but I couldn't find it searching the
> archives, so:
> 
> 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.
> 
> After quite a lot of effort installing pre-R5 a couple of weeks ago I
> reverted back to my creaky barely-R4 from ages ago because I was so
> shocked that the most useful tool for feeling your way in a new
> installation was simply not there. It gives the impression of a very
> not-ready product, which is counter to the impression I get from you
> folks. 
> 
> I just checked back today after a couple of weeks to find a few packages
> updated on 15 Jan, but not findutils.

Yeah, I found & fixed this bug on my system, but still have a problem with
that package: /usr/bin/updatedb refers to /var/tmp/findutils-root/... 
instead of simply /..., which is clearly broken.  I had to fix that file by
hand, although I'm sure there is a 'correct' way of doing this.

The original problem stems from the fact that 'strdup' is reimplemented by the
package, but in a way that is uncompatible with the glibc2 header files.  I
made a non-optimal-but-working fix to this, just to get it working.

-igor

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Re: 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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Re: pre-R5 deficiencies

[Tom Rini]

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.

It's part of the slocate package.  See /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron on how
to update the db.

---
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://dobbstown.yeti.edu/


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