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locate: Clarify mlocate warning message

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Make it clear that the warning is that updatedb will run as root, not
that locate will only run as root.  Also explain how to silence the
warning.

Fixes #30864.

Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
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Anders Kaseorg 2020-02-04 14:00:20 -08:00
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@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ in {
{ LOCATE_PATH = cfg.output;
};
warnings = optional (isMLocate && cfg.localuser != null) "mlocate does not support searching as user other than root"
warnings = optional (isMLocate && cfg.localuser != null) "mlocate does not support the services.locate.localuser option; updatedb will run as root. (Silence with services.locate.localuser = null.)"
++ optional (isFindutils && cfg.pruneNames != []) "findutils locate does not support pruning by directory component"
++ optional (isFindutils && cfg.pruneBindMounts) "findutils locate does not support skipping bind mounts";