On 14/04/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: > I have seen that Fedora Core uses Red Hat's implementation of 'locate' > and 'updatedb', while sticking to GNU's implementation of 'find'. Why > is it so? Is there any reason for not using GNU's implementation of > 'locate' and 'updatedb' as well, since they alongwith 'find' are part > of GNU Findutils (http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils)? I guess you are talking about using mlocate by default instead of slocate from Fedora Core 5. See http://carolina.mff.cuni.cz/~trmac/blog/mlocate/ Also http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-March/msg00758.html
There's also some discussion of merging mlocate functionality into gnu findutils here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-findutils/2006-04/msg00026.html -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
