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

[Milan Jurik]

Hi,

On po, 2013-08-19 at 19:09 -0500, Russ Price wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yes, slocate was obsoleted for very same reason as in Oracle JDS. I did
not include mlocate, everybody is free to contribute it to Userland for
the next release.

Best regards,

Milan