FS#14714 - [mlocate] Add more excludes to /etc/updatedb.conf

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Thursday, 14 May 2009, 02:24 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 01 August 2009, 09:41 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To James Rayner (iphitus)
Allan McRae (Allan)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

Description: The current config of mlocate index many filesystem that by default should not be indexed like sysfs @ /sys, devpts @ /dev/pts ramfs @ /dev, and others. Also should not index bind mounts (this is debatable)

The current config is:

PRUNEPATHS="/mnt /media /tmp /var/tmp /usr/tmp /var/spool /var/cache"

PRUNEFS="nfs nfs4 smbfs cifs ncpfs afs proc autofs auto iso9660 coda ftpfs sshfs shfs"


My proposed config looks:

# PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS="yes"

PRUNEPATHS="/media /mnt /tmp /var/tmp /var/cache /var/lock /var/run /var/spool"

PRUNEFS="afs auto autofs binfmt_misc cifs coda configfs cramfs debugfs devpts ftpfs iso9660 mqueue ncpfs nfs nfs4 proc ramfs securityfs shfs smbfs sshfs sysfs tmpfs udf usbfs"
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Saturday, 01 August 2009, 09:41 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  mlocate-0.22-2
Comment by Glenn Matthys (RedShift) - Sunday, 17 May 2009, 08:06 GMT
Why should sysfs, dev, etc... be excluded? You can't know what the user is searching, what if he remembers some name from /sys but doesn't know what subdirectory it is in?
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Sunday, 17 May 2009, 11:14 GMT
For the same reason that /proc is actually excluded, since theses are directories exported/related by kernel dynamically, and just for that.

For these purposes a better solution is find.

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