update-dlocatedb8

Usage

Overview

update-dlocatedb generates a plain text package contents listing from the files /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list.

This program is usually called from cron.daily.

Options

-p

Update the packages list only.

-j

Update the files list only.

-b

Update both (default).

-h

This help message.

Files

/etc/default/dlocate

Configuration file with default options. Currently the only option is to enable/disable gzip compression of the dlocatedb file.

/var/lib/dpkg/info

Directory containing dpkg file lists.

/var/lib/dlocate/dlocatedb

Plain text listing of all files belonging to all packages (optionally compressed).

/var/lib/dlocate/dpkg-list

Listing of all packages known to dpkg.

This contains the reformatted output output of "dpkg -l". The file format is four fields separated by tabs:

  status<TAB>package-name<TAB>installed-version<TAB>synopsis

The "installed-version" field may contain an architecture, e.g. ":arch".