Update the plocate-build man page to inform about the existence of the native updatedb.

[plocate] / plocate-build.8

diff --git a/plocate-build.8 b/plocate-build.8
index a4cbc12716c3b4156190aa2b3dc1c385767777ef..6c15e0d1fafae439c2ebd8bc34fae3e6431b428b 100644 (file)
--- a/plocate-build.8
+++ b/plocate-build.8
@@ -16,9 +16,11 @@ from an index earlier generated by
 .BR updatedb (1)
 from the
 .BR mlocate (1)
-package. This is currently the only way to build such an index.
+package. Most users would rather want to use plocate's own
+.BR updatedb (1),
+which is more direct.
 If
-.I MLOCATE_DB
+.I PLOCATE_DB
 already exists, it will be overwritten (non-atomically). The file is
 created such that it is not world-readable, as the final access check
 is done by
@@ -42,6 +44,11 @@ per block. However, making it too large will cause more false positives,
 reducing overall performance for typical queries. The default value is 32.
 Setting it to 1 makes one (compressed) block per filename.
 
+.TP
+\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-plaintext\fR
+Treat the input as plain text, with entries delimited by newlines,
+instead of an mlocate database.
+
 .TP
 .B \-\-help
 Print out usage information, then exit successfully.