Package: catfish
Version: 4.16.3-1
Severity: wishlist
catfish has a hard-coded path to mlocate's default database path:
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=pkg%3Acatfish+mlocate&literal=1
https://sources.debian.org/src/catfish/4.16.3-1/catfish_lib/catfishconfig.py/#L32
mlocate and plocate support $LOCATE_PATH being a colon-separated list of paths
to locate databases:
https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye-backports/plocate/plocate.1.en.html#ENVIRONMENT
I use this to run updatedb directly on the NAS, which is MUCH more efficient.
The commands are approximately this:
# on the file server, generate ~twb/.locatedb
sudo -H -u twb nice nocache updatedb --require-visibility=no --output
.locatedb --database-root ~twb
# on the desktop, where ~twb is NFS and / is Debian Live
export LOCATE_PATH=~twb/.locatedb
locate foo
catfish
I think with Debian 11's catfish, it will ALWAYS pop up this alert:
The search database is more than 7 days old. Update now? [Update] [X]
I'm not sure EXACTLY what the correct semantics here should be, but
the current behaviour is definitely annoying me! :-)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-0.bpo.2-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
