[MacPorts] #74230: findutils 4.11.0_0 remains broken on macOS Tahoe

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#74230: findutils 4.11.0_0 remains broken on macOS Tahoe
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 Reporter:  seamusdemora        |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect              |     Status:  new
 Priority:  Normal              |  Milestone:
Component:  ports               |    Version:  2.12.5
 Keywords:  locatedb findutils  |       Port:  findutils
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 This ticket is (more or less) a continuation of ticket #73455, but it does
 contain a ''**potential work-around**'' to get some use from it.

 **General comments & blether:** {{{findutils}}} consists of two packages
 AFAIK: {{{find}}}, and {{{locate}}}. While {{{find}}} seems to be
 generally functional on my systems, {{{locate}}} (''at least as installed
 on my macOS 26 system'') is virtually useless. The recent flurry of
 upstream activity at GNU that apparently led to the 4.11 release has not
 helped cure the issues reported in #73455. I subscribed to the GNU bug-
 findutils mailing list, and submitted a report summarizing the issues I
 saw in macOS. AFAIK, there was no reply to my report other than a terse
 message from the developer that he had no Mac hardware to develop or test
 with. I think this means that no help is forthcoming from the GNU
 {{{findutils}}} team!

 **Description of the Issue:** Before {{{locate}}} can be put to use, a
 database must be built using the {{{updatedb}}} utility. Here's what I see
 immediately after performing the {{{findutils}}} update to ver 4.11.0:

 {{{
 % sudo updatedb
 gfind: '/Library/Caches/com.apple.amsengagementd.classicdatavault':
 Operation not permitted
 gfind: '/Library/Caches/com.apple.aneuserd': Operation not permitted
 gfind: '/Library/Caches/com.apple.aned': Operation not permitted
 gfind: '/System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_UAF_FM_Visual':
 Operation not permitted
 gfind:
 '/System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_UAF_FM_GenerativeModels':
 Operation not permitted
 gfind: '/System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_UAF_IF_Planner':
 Operation not permitted
 gfind: '/System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_UAF_FM_Overrides':
 Operation not permitted
 gfind:
 '/System/Volumes/Data/Library/Caches/com.apple.amsengagementd.classicdatavault':
 Operation not permitted
 gfind: '/System/Volumes/Data/Library/Caches/com.apple.aneuserd': Operation
 not permitted
 gfind: '/System/Volumes/Data/Library/Caches/com.apple.aned': Operation not
 permitted
 gfind: failed to read file names from file system at or below '/': No such
 file or directory
 %
 }}}

 The last line is not encouraging: {{{gfind: failed to read file names from
 file system at or below '/': No such file or directory}}} - I've no idea
 what this actually means, but in practice after running {{{sudo
 updatedb}}}, {{{locate}}} failed to find a test file I inserted in my home
 folder {{{/Users/seamus}}}... **i.e. {{{locate}}} is completely and
 totally useless**!

 Perusing {{{man updatedb}}} suggested that the options {{{--localpaths}}}
 and {{{--prunepaths}}} might possibly be useful as a ''kludge-y work-
 around'' to the issue. Here's how it went:

 **A kludge-y work-around:**
 {{{
 % LOCALPATHS='/Applications /bin /cores /dev /Library /opt /private/etc
 /sbin /Users /usr'

 % PRUNEPATHS='/System/Library/AssetsV2 /System/Volumes/Data/Library/Caches
 /Library/Caches'

 % sudo updatedb --localpaths=$LOCALPATHS --prunepaths=$PRUNEPATHS
 gfind: '/Users/seamus/Library/Mobile
 Documents/com~apple~ScriptEditor2/Documents/BashScript.workflow':
 Operation timed out

 %  % locate yt-dlp.conf
 /Users/seamus/.local/bin/yt-dlp.conf
 /Users/seamus/yt-dlp.conf
 }}}

 **Some Documentation:**
 From #73455 it seems that the MacPorts developer for {{{findutils}}} is
 AWOL; I take this to mean that the {{{find-utils}}} package is not
 currently being supported for macOS. Consequently, I wonder if it might be
 helpful to other lost souls if an "installation note" was added to
 {{{findutils}}} - in the spirit of the output from last night's update:

 {{{
 --->  Some of the ports you installed have notes:
   coreutils has the following notes:
     The tools provided by GNU coreutils are prefixed with the character
 'g' by default to distinguish them from the BSD commands.
     For example, cp becomes gcp and ls becomes gls.

     If you want to use the GNU tools by default, add this directory to the
 front of your PATH environment variable:
         /opt/local/libexec/gnubin/
 }}}

 i.e.

 {{{
 --->  Some of the ports you installed have notes:
   findutils has the following notes:
     The 'locate' tool provided by GNU findutils has unresolved issues on
 later versions of macOS.
     For example, the 'updatedb' command fails w/ "failed to read file
 names from file system at or below '/'".

     If you want to use {{{locate}}}, consider the following sequence of
 commands to execute {{{updatedb}}}:
     LOCALPATHS='/Applications /bin /cores /dev /Library /opt /private/etc
 /sbin /Users /usr'
     PRUNEPATHS='/System/Library/AssetsV2
 /System/Volumes/Data/Library/Caches /Library/Caches'
     sudo updatedb --localpaths=$LOCALPATHS --prunepaths=$PRUNEPATHS
 }}}

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