locate.updatedb's options not working?

[hazmat]

I have found that the --prunepaths option of locate.updatedb doesn't work, or at least I am doing it wrong. Thing is that I have been using the locate database forever. Can anyone confirm that --prunepaths works for them? I find it odd that its man page use three dashes, but I tried both two and three.

Thanks.

 

[slur]

Doesn't seem to work for me. By the way, have you looked at the locate.updatedb script? (Yep, it's a script.) It doesn't seem to do anything with the arguments shown in the man page. I don't think it's a complete implementation.

 

[hazmat]

Oh, crap. I didn't realize it was a script. I think I'll install the GNU findutils into /usr/local.

 

[hazmat]

Dammit. I installed the findutils no problem, but running locate (from findutils) segfaults.