Re: Secure Locate 1.2 (findutils?)

1998-10-16 Thread Kevin Dalley
I'm planning on investigating this for the next release. It won't be in slink. It is an interesting idea. While I have recently heard about secure locate, I haven't examined it yet. The standard locate is so full of problems, I want to give secure locate a look before releasing it. -- Kevin Da

Re: Secure Locate 1.2 (findutils?)

1998-10-16 Thread Martin Schulze
If the package replaces the utilities from findutils and is commandline compatible, you might want to find out how dpkg-divert and update-alternatives work. I'd vote for update-alternatives. In any case please negotiate with the findutils maintainer. Regards, Joey Brian Ristuccia wrote

Secure Locate 1.2 (findutils?)

1998-10-16 Thread Brian Ristuccia
Anyone give any thought to packaging Secure Locate 1.2? Is there any way to package this without it conflicting with the standard locate provided in findutils? This seems like a much better way to enhance privacy without running updatedb as nobody and thus making users unable to 'locate' files in