excluding .svn and symlinks from locate db

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Karl Berry <karlfreefriends.org> wrote:
>  The diff below (between stock 4.4.0 and the derived
script that I
>  actually run) gives the flavor, although of course for
any distributed
>  patch it would be generalized.  If you're amenable to
the idea, I could
>  work on a real patch.  Wdyt?

In principle the idea is that findutils-4.5.0 will move to a
C binary
for updatedb, or at least for parts of its work.  So I'm not
sure what
the optimum balance between flexibility on the one hand and
performance and robustness on the other would be.

However, did you try using the --findoptions argument to
updatedb?  Or
was that unsuitable?

James.