[csw-maintainers] [csw-buildfarm] findutils and its database on the farm

[Chris Reece]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 9:12 am, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:

> Chris: As you already did findutils with glocate, it would be
> really cool if you could also package up slocate <http://slocate.trakker.ca/>
> as more secure alternative.

I looked over the GAR documentation at the weekend and an hour or so later I
was none the wiser.  I checked out a local copy on my one Sun box at home,
found what looks like an attempt at findutils in there, not mine.  Didn't get
anywhere with it.

In the interim, there's a traditionally-rolled, up to date package in testing:

/home/testing/findutils-4.4.1,REV=2009.06.01-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz
/home/testing/findutils-4.4.1,REV=2009.06.01-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz

There's a postinstall script in there to add a gupdatedb job in the small
hours.  This is the first time I've packaged in a long time, so I'd be happy
to receive feedback.  I have no way to test the i386 package, in particular.

As for slocate, I'm guessing that it's going to require chunks of GNUlib. 
We're missing fts, for instance.  Have you used a contemporary version of
this, or seen it running on Solaris?

Cheers,

Chris.