Bug 49327

Summary:	slocate ignores LOCATE _PATH
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Jim Radford <radford>
Component:	slocate	Assignee:	Thomas Woerner <twoerner>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1
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Description Jim Radford 2001-07-18 01:39:17 UTC

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Description of problem:
slocate ignores datbases passed in the LOCATE_PATH environment
variable.


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
$ mkdir -p /tmp/locate/asdfasdf/time
$ locate -o x -U /tmp/locate
$ env LOCATE_PATH=x locate asdfasdf
$ locate -d x asdfasdf
/tmp/locate/asdfasdf
/tmp/locate/asdfasdf/time


Additional info:

Here's a patch.

--- slocate-2.5/main.c.orig     Tue Jul 17 18:15:10 2001
+++ slocate-2.5/main.c  Tue Jul 17 18:16:33 2001
@@ -1362,6 +1362,10 @@
        /* Add the LOCATE_PATH environment variable to the list of
databases to search in */
        parse_decode_path(getenv("LOCATE_PATH"));
 
+       /* If we found something in LOCATE_PATH then don't overwrite it
with the default */
+       if(SLOCATE_PATH && *SLOCATE_PATH) 
+           ADD_SLOCATEDB=0;
+
        /* Loop through specified command line arguments */
        while ((ch = getopt(args,argv,"VvuhqU:r:o:e:l:d:-:n:f:ci")) != EOF) {
                switch(ch) {

Comment 1 Thomas Woerner 2004-10-15 18:44:45 UTC

Please verify this with a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or
Fedora Core and reopen it against the new version if it still occurs.

Closing as "not a bug" for now.