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

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 20/08/2013 02:09, 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.

mlocate is very linux-specific, you will have to rewrite parts...