I've got a couple of partitions on an external drive that contain only backups, so I don't want them to show up in /sw/bin/locate's database.
In principle, the right thing to do is to edit /sw/etc/cron.daily/findutils to pass the --prunepaths option to updatedb, but that doesn't work in this case, because --prunepaths expects a space-separated list, and the paths I want to exclude have spaces in them. Escaping the spaces with backslashes doesn't work. (If you look at the script /sw/bin/updatedb, you'll see that it uses a primitive sed script to change the space-separated list into a regex, and this sed script doesn't pay any attention to escapes.) I'm fairly certain that this limitation in the findutils package exists in the upstream copy and isn't fink's responsibility. But I thought I'd ask anyway. Does anyone know of a way around this problem? Thanks, Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
