Re: [SLE] YAST RPM storage location

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Date:  Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:29:12 +0100 (BST)

On 19/08/04 04:05 PM, Danny Sauer <suse-linux-e.suselists@danny.teleologic.net> wrote:

>
> It's probably worth noting that locate will find files *in the parts of
> the filesystem that are indexed*, which usually excludes a few parts like
> /home, some parts of /var, etc. When it works, locate is much faster.
> When it doesn't work, you need to know that it's not actually searching
> the *whole* system like "find /" as root will.
>

True, but thats because locate is querying a database not actually performing a search of the filesystem, prehaps if BFS were ever to be ported, or live indexing incorporated into reiser things would be easyer.

> It's also worth noting that "find /var -iname rpm" will find anything in
> /var that's case-insensitvely named rpm (RPM, rPm, etc). File.rpm will
> not be found, nor will arpme.txt. :) "find /var -iname '*rpm*'" will.
>

Yes but the rpm cache tends to get pretty large and I was writing the above in a hurry :)

>
> Do one thing, and do it well (and support STDIN/STDOUT, please)... :)

optimistic arnt we? :-)

>
> --Danny, who should probably do some actual work this morning...

Ben, who looking at the core switch that is to be configured decides to keep checking his emails...

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