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diff --git a/upstream/fedora-rawhide/man5/updatedb.conf.5 b/upstream/fedora-rawhide/man5/updatedb.conf.5 deleted file mode 100644 index 89181379..00000000 --- a/upstream/fedora-rawhide/man5/updatedb.conf.5 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,138 +0,0 @@ -.\" A man page for updatedb.conf. -*- nroff -*- -.\" -.\" Copyright (C) 2005, 2007, 2008 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. -.\" -.\" This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, -.\" modify, copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the -.\" GNU General Public License v.2. -.\" -.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT -.\" ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or -.\" FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for -.\" more details. -.\" -.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along -.\" with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., -.\" 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. -.\" -.\" Author: Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com> -.TH updatedb.conf 5 "Jun 2008" mlocate - -.SH NAME -/etc/updatedb.conf \- a configuration file for updatedb(8) - -.SH DESCRIPTION -.B /etc/updatedb.conf -is a text file. -Blank lines are ignored. -A -.B # -character outside of a quoted string starts a comment -extending until end of line. - -Other lines must be of the following form: -.RS -.I VARIABLE -.B = -\fB"\fIVALUE\fB"\fR -.RE - -White space between tokens is ignored. -.I VARIABLE -is an alphanumeric string which does not start with a digit. -.I VALUE -can contain any character except for \fB\(dq\fR. -No escape mechanism is supported within -.I VALUE -and there is no way to write -.I VALUE -spanning more than one line. - -Unknown -.I VARIABLE -values are considered an error. -The defined variables are: - -.TP -\fBPRUNEFS\fR -A whitespace-separated list of file system types (as used in \fB/etc/mtab\fR) -which should not be scanned by -.BR updatedb (8). -The file system type matching is case-insensitive. By default, no file system -types are skipped. - -When scanning a file system is skipped, -all file systems mounted in the subtree are skipped too, -even if their type does not match any entry in \fBPRUNEFS\fR. - -.TP -\fBPRUNENAMES\fR -A whitespace-separated list of directory names (without paths) which should not -be scanned by -.BR updatedb (8). -By default, no directory names are skipped. - -Note that only directories can be specified, and no pattern mechanism (e.g. -globbing) is used. - -.TP -\fBPRUNEPATHS\fR -A whitespace-separated list of path names of directories which should not be -scanned by -.BR updatedb (8). -Each path name must be exactly in the form -in which the directory would be reported by -.BR locate (1). - -By default, no paths are skipped. - -.TP -\fBPRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS\FR -One of the strings \fB0\fR, \fBno\fR, \fB1\fR or \fByes\fR. -If -.B PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS -is \fB1\fR or \fByes\fR, -bind mounts are not scanned by -.BR updatedb (8). -All file systems mounted in the subtree of a bind mount are skipped as well, -even if they are not bind mounts. -As an exception, bind mounts of a directory on itself are not skipped. - -By default, bind mounts are not skipped. - -.SH NOTES -When a directory is matched by \fBPRUNEFS\fR, \fBPRUNENAMES\fR or -\fBPRUNEPATHS\fR, -.BR updatedb (8) -does not scan the contents of the directory. -The path of the directory itself is, however, entered in the created database. -For example, if -.I /tmp -is in \fBPRUNEPATHS\fR, -.BR locate (1) -will not show any files stored in \fI/tmp\fR, -but it can show the -.I /tmp -directory. -This behavior differs from traditional -.B locate -implementations. - -In some -.BR updatedb (8) -implementations \fBPRUNEPATHS\fR can be used to exclude non-directory files. -This is not the case in this implementation. - -.B /etc/updatedb.conf -is a shell script in some implementations, -which allows much more flexibility in defining the variables. -Equivalent functionality can be achieved by using the command-line options -to -.BR updatedb (8). - -.SH AUTHOR -Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com> - -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR locate (1), -.BR updatedb (8) |