UPDATE-DLOCATEDB

Section: dlocate (8) Updated: 2009-06-03 Local index Up

NAME

update-dlocatedb - Generate text database of installed files for dlocate

SYNOPSIS

update-dlocatedb

DESCRIPTION

update-dlocatedb generates a plain text package contents listing dlocate from the files /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list This program is usually called from cron.daily.

FILES

/etc/default/dlocate: Configuration file with default options. Currently the only option is to enable/disable gzip compression of the dlocatedb.txt file
: /var/lib/dpkg/info directory containing dpkg file lists

/var/lib/dlocate/dlocatedb.txt: plain text listing of all files belonging to all packages (optionally compressed)

AUTHOR

This version of update-dlocatedb was written by Fredrik Hallenberg, Craig Sanders, and Pawel Chmielowski. The manual page was written by Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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Time: 22:02:33 GMT, April 16, 2011