Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Dan Armak <ermak@×××××××××××××.il>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] locate/updatedb
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 00:08:43
Message-Id: 01080109034001.03874@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] locate/updatedb by Ayelet Goldin
1 On Wednesday 01 August 2001 08:28, you wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > at least on my computer locate used to segfault every
5 > time i would try to locate something..
6 > i searched among different distributions for patches..
7 > (because i don't feel like trying to trace their C
8 > code) and slackware's patch works.
9 >
10 > in case anyone is interested,
11 > what i did is:
12 > in the src_unpack i have:
13 > unpack ${A}
14 > echo "Applying Patch..."
15 > cd ${S}
16 > zcat
17 > /usr/portage/sys-apps/findutils/findutils-4.1.diff.gz
18 >
19 > | patch -p1 -E #Slackware patch
20 >
21 > findutils-4.1.diff.gz is attached to this email.
22 > (and can also be found in the slackware source tree
23 > ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.0/source/a/find/
24 > )
25 > (and locate doesn't segfault :-)
26
27 Alright, I'm putting this into incoming.