NAME
update-dlocatedb - Generate text database of installed files for
dlocate
SYNOPSIS
update-dlocatedb
DESCRIPTION
update-dlocatedb generates a plain text package contents listing
dlocate from the files /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list This program is
usually called from cron.daily.
FILES
/etc/default/dlocate
Configuration file with default options. Currently the only
option is to enable/disable gzip compression of the
dlocatedb.txt file
/var/lib/dpkg/info
directory containing dpkg file lists
/var/lib/dlocate/dlocatedb.txt
plain text listing of all files belonging to all packages
(optionally compressed)
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).