[Bug 238062] Re: mlocate package doesn't install /etc/updatedb.conf

[Thomas Hotz]

Closing this bug because this Ubuntu version is EOL now.

** Changed in: mlocate (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  mlocate package doesn't install /etc/updatedb.conf

Status in “mlocate” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: mlocate

  According to the list of files in the mlocate package
  <http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/i386/mlocate/filelist>, it provides
  /etc/updatedb.conf.  But after I upgraded from Feisty to Hardy (8.04),
  updatedb stopped working, and eventually I figured out that it was
  because the mlocate package, which has replaced the previous
  implementation of locate, didn't replace the previous implementation's
  /etc/updatedb.conf file with its own, and it doesn't understand the
  old conf file:

  myk at myk:~$ sudo updatedb
  updatedb:/etc/updatedb.conf:4: unknown variable `FINDOPTIONS'
  updatedb:/etc/updatedb.conf:5: unknown variable `export'
  updatedb:/etc/updatedb.conf:8: unknown variable `export'
  updatedb:/etc/updatedb.conf:11: unknown variable `export'
  updatedb:/etc/updatedb.conf:13: unknown variable `NETPATHS'
  updatedb:/etc/updatedb.conf:14: unknown variable `export'
  updatedb:/etc/updatedb.conf:16: unknown variable `LOCALUSER'
  updatedb:/etc/updatedb.conf:17: unknown variable `export'
  updatedb:/etc/updatedb.conf:20: unknown variable `NICE'
  updatedb:/etc/updatedb.conf:21: unknown variable `export'
  updatedb:/etc/updatedb.conf:24: unknown variable `IONICE_CLASS'
  updatedb:/etc/updatedb.conf:25: unknown variable `export'
  updatedb:/etc/updatedb.conf:27: unknown variable `IONICE_PRIORITY'
  updatedb:/etc/updatedb.conf:28: unknown variable `export'

  Even when I moved the old file out of the way and reinstalled mlocate,
  it still didn't install the file:

  myk at myk:~$ sudo mv /etc/updatedb.conf /etc/updatedb.conf.old
  myk at myk:~$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install mlocate
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 0B/43.9kB of archives.
  After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
  (Reading database ... 140566 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to replace mlocate 0.18-2ubuntu1 (using .../mlocate_0.18-2ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement mlocate ...
  Setting up mlocate (0.18-2ubuntu1) ...

  myk at myk:~$ ll /etc/updatedb.conf
  ls: cannot access /etc/updatedb.conf: No such file or directory

  If download the package, manually extract the file from it, and then
  install the file, updatedb runs fine.

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