NAME¶

update-dlocatedb - generate text database of installed files for dlocate

SYNOPSIS¶

update-dlocatedb

DESCRIPTION¶

update-dlocatedb generates a plain text package contents listing from the files /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list

This program is usually called from cron.daily.

OPTIONS¶

-p

Update the packages list only

-j

Update the files list only

-b

Update both (default)

-h

This help message

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)

/var/lib/dlocate/dpkg-list

Listing of all packages known to dpkg.

This contains the reformatted output output of 'dpkg -l'. The file format is four fields separated by tabs:

status [TAB] package-name [TAB] installed version [TAB] short description

The "installed version" field may contain an architecture, e.g. ":arch"

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, under the terms of the GNU GPL).