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Install this package:

emerge -a sys-apps/plocate

If the package is masked, you can unmask it using the autounmask tool or standard emerge options:

autounmask sys-apps/plocate

Or alternatively:

emerge --autounmask-write -a sys-apps/plocate

Package Information

Description:

plocate works by creating an inverted index over trigrams (combinations of three bytes) in the search strings, which allows it to rapidly narrow down the set of candidates to a very small list, instead of linearly scanning through every entry. It does nearly all I/O asynchronously using io_uring if available (Linux 5.1+), which reduces the impact of seek latency on systems without SSDs. Like mlocate and slocate, the returned file set is user-dependent, ie. a user will only see a file if find(1) would list it (all directories from the root have +rx permissions).

Homepage:

https://plocate.sesse.net/

License:

GPL-2 GPL-2+

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Metadata

Description

• plocate works by creating an inverted index over trigrams (combinations of three bytes) in the search strings, which allows it to rapidly narrow down the set of candidates to a very small list, instead of linearly scanning through every entry. It does nearly all I/O asynchronously using io_uring if available (Linux 5.1+), which reduces the impact of seek latency on systems without SSDs. Like mlocate and slocate, the returned file set is user-dependent, ie. a user will only see a file if find(1) would list it (all directories from the root have +rx permissions).

Maintainers

• Jeffrey Lin (jeffrey@icurse.nl) - Type: person
• Arsen Arsenović (arsen@gentoo.org) - Type: person
• Florian Schmaus (flow@gentoo.org) - Type: person
• Proxy Maintainers (proxy-maint@gentoo.org) - Type: project

<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
		<email>jeffrey@icurse.nl</email>
		<name>Jeffrey Lin</name>
	</maintainer>
	<maintainer type="person">
		<email>arsen@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Arsen Arsenović</name>
	</maintainer>
	<maintainer type="person">
		<email>flow@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Florian Schmaus</name>
	</maintainer>
	<maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
	</maintainer>
	<longdescription>
	plocate works by creating an inverted index over trigrams (combinations of
	three bytes) in the search strings, which allows it to rapidly narrow down the
	set of candidates to a very small list, instead of linearly scanning through
	every entry. It does nearly all I/O asynchronously using io_uring if available
	(Linux 5.1+), which reduces the impact of seek latency on systems without SSDs.
	Like mlocate and slocate, the returned file set is user-dependent, ie. a user
	will only see a file if find(1) would list it (all directories from the root
	have +rx permissions).
	</longdescription>
</pkgmetadata>

Lint Warnings

• [Warning] USE flag 'io-uring' in ebuild 1.1.24 is not documented in metadata.xml
• [Warning] USE flag 'io-uring' in ebuild 1.1.23 is not documented in metadata.xml
• [Error] Missing md5-cache for ebuild plocate-1.1.24
• [Error] Missing md5-cache for ebuild plocate-1.1.23

USE Flags

Manage flags for this package: euse -i <flag> -p sys-apps/plocate | euse -E <flag> -p sys-apps/plocate | euse -D <flag> -p sys-apps/plocate

Files

• plocate-1.1.15-meson-use-feature-option-for-libiouring.patch
• plocate-1.1.24-io_uring_engine-Fix-stat.h-include.patch
• plocate-cron.conf
• plocate.cron
• updatedb-1.1.24.conf
• updatedb.conf

Manifest