Bug#2791: locate seg faults if locatedb too big

[Kevin Dalley <kevin@aimnet.com>]

>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> Guy Maor writes ("Bug#2791: locate seg faults if locatedb too big"):
> ...
>> That's not necessary.  Instead of editing updatedb, just edit
>> /etc/cron.daily/find, which is a conffile.  Then you won't lose your
>> changes when you upgrade findutils.  You can program updatedb with
>> arguments or environment variables.

> We really need a single place to specify filesystem types and
> directory hierarchies to exclude from automatic find scripts,
> updatedb, &c.

That's a good idea.  Currently, updatedb does not have an option to
exclude arbitrary file systems.  It is a hard coded argument.  I plan
on changing this after discussion and discussing it with the FSF
maintainers.

Of course, we also need a standard way to skip the defaults.

Any suggestions here.

kevin