whereis search path

whereis search path

[Brandon Vincent]

Out of curiosity, it looks like the search path for whereis is hard coded.

Was the inclusion of /usr/share/info ever considered?

Brandon Vincent

Re: whereis search path

[Sami Kerola]

On 27 January 2015 at 06:33, Brandon Vincent <Brandon.Vincent@asu.edu> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, it looks like the search path for whereis is hard coded.

Hi Brandon,

The whereis(1) default paths are indeed hard coded.

https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/blob/master/misc-utils/whereis.c#L96

With -B, -M, and -S option arguments additional paths can be
specified, but that is not what you are asking.

> Was the inclusion of /usr/share/info ever considered?

As far I can tell inclusion of the info directory has not been
considered. I recon the /usr/share/info is closest to manuals category
from the three options, and it feels like reasonable addition.

Any other opinions? And should this change be done before or after
release v2.25?

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Sami Kerola
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Re: whereis search path

[Karel Zak]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 09:56:04AM +0000, Sami Kerola wrote:
> Any other opinions? And should this change be done before or after
> release v2.25?

 Sounds like trivial change, I think we can add it to v2.26.

    Karel

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 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
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Re: whereis search path

[Karel Zak]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 09:56:04AM +0000, Sami Kerola wrote:
> > Was the inclusion of /usr/share/info ever considered?
> 
> As far I can tell inclusion of the info directory has not been
> considered. I recon the /usr/share/info is closest to manuals category
> from the three options, and it feels like reasonable addition.
> 
> Any other opinions? And should this change be done before or after
> release v2.25?

 Fixed.

 old version:

    $ whereis parted
    parted: /usr/sbin/parted /usr/share/man/man8/parted.8.gz

 new version:
    $ whereis parted
    parted: /usr/sbin/parted /usr/share/man/man8/parted.8.gz /usr/share/info/parted.info.gz



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 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com