Package: plocate
Version: 1.1.8-2
Severity: minor
I noticed plocate always reports a broken locatedb as "plocate.db", even when
the filename is something else:
twb@hera[Desktop]$ LOCATE_PATH=$PWD/test.mlocatedb locate 'tinyssh*deb'
plocate.db is corrupt or an old version; please rebuild it.
twb@hera[Desktop]$ locate 'tinyssh*deb'
[no output]
Clearly the broken file there is called "test.mlocatedb", not "plocate.db".
plocate should either not mention a filename, or
use the specific filename that had corruption/oldness.
Not really relevant to this bug report, but the context for this is:
1. To reduce search load,
I generate per-user locate databases on the NFS server, and
tell clients to use them:
server$ sudo -H -u twb LC_MESSAGES=C nocache nice ionice -c3 chrt
--idle 0 updatedb --require-visibility=no --output /home/twb/.locatedb
--database-root /home/twb
client$ export LOCATE_PATH=/home/twb/.locatedb
client$ catfish # or something else that calls locate(1).
2. mlocate is gone in Debian 12, so
I wanted to test if locate(1plocate) could read a database generated by
updatedb(8mlocate).
If it could, I wouldn't have to upgrade all clients and servers at once.
(It can't, hence the error message about "corrupt or an old version".)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990, 'stable-security'), (990,
'stable'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages plocate depends on:
ii libc6 2.32-4
ii libgcc-s1 10.2.1-6
ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-6
ii liburing1 0.7-3
ii libzstd1 1.4.8+dfsg-2.1
plocate recommends no packages.
Versions of packages plocate suggests:
ii nocache 1.1-1+b1
ii powermgmt-base 1.36
ii systemd-sysv 247.3-6
-- no debconf information
