Feature changed by: Karl Cheng (qantas94heavy) Feature #310205, revision 7 Title: using slocate instead of locate - openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed + openSUSE Distribution: Done Priority - Requester: Important + Requester: Desirable Requested by: matthias propst (l1zard) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: maybe it would be a good idea to use slocate as default in findutils- locate package. it may called findutils-slocate. here are the reasons why i think we should use this: first its faster. i dont know how they do this but it really is faster. second it is more secure than locate because Secure Locate provides a secure way to index and quickly search for files on your system. It uses incremental encoding just like GNU locate to compress its database to make searching faster, but it will also store file permissions and ownership so that users will not see files they do not have access to. updatedb could than be a simple script or even an alias pointing to slocate -u / i just compiled it in my system and it works. Discussion: #1: Pascal Bleser (pbleser) (2010-07-24 13:31:35) The best path for having slocate in the distribution, IMHO, would be as follows: * package it in OBS * make a call for testing (post on forums + mailinglist) and try to collect at least a dozen positive reports + fix reported issues * make a submitreq to push it to the Contrib repository After that, if I'm not mistaken, a bugzilla bug is needed to ask for inclusion into the distribution (not sure, best to ask Coolo about that). #2: Pascal Bleser (pbleser) (2010-07-24 13:41:59) That being said, Fedora uses mlocate: http://carolina.mff.cuni.cz/~trmac/blog/mlocate/ (http://carolina.mff.cuni.cz/~trmac/blog/mlocate/) Which seems even more interesting. #3: Pascal Bleser (pbleser) (2010-07-25 12:13:14) mlocate packages (for openSUSE) are available in my staging repository: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pbleser:/staging/ Needs some testing now, then I can push it to Contrib. + #4: Karl Cheng (qantas94heavy) (2016-12-03 14:55:07) + mlocate is now included in main distribution. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310205