* whereis search path
@ 2015-01-27 6:33 Brandon Vincent
2015-01-27 9:56 ` Sami Kerola
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From: Brandon Vincent @ 2015-01-27 6:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: util-linux
Out of curiosity, it looks like the search path for whereis is hard coded.
Was the inclusion of /usr/share/info ever considered?
Brandon Vincent
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* Re: whereis search path
2015-01-27 6:33 whereis search path Brandon Vincent
@ 2015-01-27 9:56 ` Sami Kerola
2015-01-28 7:32 ` Karel Zak
2015-02-02 10:24 ` Karel Zak
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From: Sami Kerola @ 2015-01-27 9:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Brandon Vincent; +Cc: util-linux
On 27 January 2015 at 06:33, Brandon Vincent <Brandon.Vincent@asu.edu> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, it looks like the search path for whereis is hard coded.
Hi Brandon,
The whereis(1) default paths are indeed hard coded.
https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/blob/master/misc-utils/whereis.c#L96
With -B, -M, and -S option arguments additional paths can be
specified, but that is not what you are asking.
> Was the inclusion of /usr/share/info ever considered?
As far I can tell inclusion of the info directory has not been
considered. I recon the /usr/share/info is closest to manuals category
from the three options, and it feels like reasonable addition.
Any other opinions? And should this change be done before or after
release v2.25?
--
Sami Kerola
http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/
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* Re: whereis search path
2015-01-27 9:56 ` Sami Kerola
@ 2015-01-28 7:32 ` Karel Zak
2015-02-02 10:24 ` Karel Zak
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From: Karel Zak @ 2015-01-28 7:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kerolasa; +Cc: Brandon Vincent, util-linux
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 09:56:04AM +0000, Sami Kerola wrote:
> Any other opinions? And should this change be done before or after
> release v2.25?
Sounds like trivial change, I think we can add it to v2.26.
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
http://karelzak.blogspot.com
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2015-01-27 9:56 ` Sami Kerola
2015-01-28 7:32 ` Karel Zak
@ 2015-02-02 10:24 ` Karel Zak
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From: Karel Zak @ 2015-02-02 10:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kerolasa; +Cc: Brandon Vincent, util-linux
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 09:56:04AM +0000, Sami Kerola wrote:
> > Was the inclusion of /usr/share/info ever considered?
>
> As far I can tell inclusion of the info directory has not been
> considered. I recon the /usr/share/info is closest to manuals category
> from the three options, and it feels like reasonable addition.
>
> Any other opinions? And should this change be done before or after
> release v2.25?
Fixed.
old version:
$ whereis parted
parted: /usr/sbin/parted /usr/share/man/man8/parted.8.gz
new version:
$ whereis parted
parted: /usr/sbin/parted /usr/share/man/man8/parted.8.gz /usr/share/info/parted.info.gz
--
Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
http://karelzak.blogspot.com
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