NAME¶
update-dlocatedb - generate text database of installed files for dlocate
SYNOPSIS¶
update-dlocatedb
DESCRIPTION¶
update-dlocatedb generates a plain text package contents listing
dlocate from the files /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list This program is
usually called from cron.daily.
FILES¶
- /etc/default/dlocate
- Configuration file with default options. Currently the only option is to
enable/disable gzip compression of the dlocatedb file.
- /var/lib/dpkg/info
- Directory containing dpkg file lists
- /var/lib/dlocate/dlocatedb
- Plain text listing of all files belonging to all packages (optionally
compressed)
SEE ALSO¶
dlocate(1)
AUTHOR¶
This version of update-dlocatedb was written by Fredrik Hallenberg, Craig
Sanders, and Pawel Chmielowski. The manual page was written by Andreas Metzler
<ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but
may be used by others).