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# Written by Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>,
# under the terms of the GNU GPL.
=head1 NAME
update-dlocatedb - generate text database of installed files for dlocate
=head1 SYNOPSIS
B<update-dlocatedb> [I<option>...]
=head1 DESCRIPTION
B<update-dlocatedb> generates a plain text package contents listing
from the files F</var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list>.
This program is usually called from F<cron.daily>.
=head1 OPTIONS
=over
=item B<-p>
Update the packages list only.
=item B<-j>
Update the files list only.
=item B<-b>
Update both (default).
=item B<-h>
This help message.
=back
=head1 FILES
=over
=item F</etc/default/dlocate>
Configuration file with default options. Currently the only option is
to enable/disable gzip compression of the dlocatedb file.
=item F</var/lib/dpkg/info>
Directory containing dpkg file lists.
=item F</var/lib/dlocate/dlocatedb>
Plain text listing of all files belonging to all packages
(optionally compressed).
=item F</var/lib/dlocate/dpkg-list>
Listing of all packages known to dpkg.
This contains the reformatted output output of C<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".
=back
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<dlocate(1)>.
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