tracker

Gene Czarcinski <gczarcinski@xxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 19 Nov 2014 07:37:22 -0500



    Well, I am sure it is not a show stopper but tracker is going to be
    a royal PITA for some users.

    
    In Fedora 20 we have tracker-0.16.5-1.fc20.x86_64 and in Fedora 21
    it is tracker-1.2.4-3.fc21.x86_64.  That difference in
    version/release means that the tracker developer has been very busy
    adding to the different files now handled by tracker.

    
    Unfortunately, either the implmenetation is bad or a lot of files
    are incorrect or both.  After doing a fresh install of F21-TC2
    workstation, I noticed a log of crap being dumped into the log
    (journal).   This was a fresh install of Fedora 21 but keeping all
    my data including the existing home directories.  The problem is
    reported here:

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1148570 and here:

    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735406

    
    Since there was some mention of the F21 tracker using old data, I
    re-installed but with a new set of home directories.  I then moved
    the old data a bit at a time.  I used tracker-preferences to ignore
    a lot of files and that reduced the number of error/warning messages
    in the log.

    
    It may be possible to simply delete ~/.cache/tracker/* files rather
    than recreating the home directories.  I will be testing to see if
    that works.  At the very least, I believe that the following should
    be done:

    
      Add something to the release notes warning of the situation.

        
      If tracker is installed, then tracker-preferences should be
        installed too.  The easiest way to do this is to add a requires
        in the tracker rpm for tracker-preferences.

        
      Put a little pressure on upstream to address this problem with
        tracker.  Does tracker really need to put these error/warning
        messages in the logs?

      
    In the end, I had to add the following Glob patterns to ignore: 

          *.au, *.azw, *.mobi, *.mov, *.MOV, *.mp3,
          *.MP3, *.mpg, *.tif, *.wav and *.xcf

    
    Comments?

    
    Gene

  
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