[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi_151a8: What happened to slocate?

[Russ Price]

On 08/19/2013 04:56 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> I don't know how closely OI followed, but in the "upstream" ("midstream"?)
> sources from Oracle, JDS obsoleted slocate because the upstream died, and
> mlocate was delivered in Userland to replace it.
>
> mlocate had the benefit of both a still active upstream and of not needing
> to abuse ksh93's private libast.so the way slocate had.  It's also the choice
> Red Hat/Fedora and several other distros made to replace slocate when it died.
>
> http://carolina.mff.cuni.cz/~trmac/blog/mlocate/
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=172822
> https://hg.openindiana.org/upstream/oracle/userland-gate/file/tip/components/mlocate
>
>

I guess I'll have to grab the source and compile my own, since there isn't an 
mlocate package in oi_151a8.