On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 07:37 -0500, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > 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. Well, they actually jumped to 1.0 after 0.17: https://github.com/GNOME/tracker/releases Still quite a few releases, though, yes. > > 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: > 1. Add something to the release notes warning of the situation. > > 2. 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. > > 3. 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? > I'm using tracker on two of my systems and for most of the part, it works OK. I had do add *.cpp *.c to the globs to exclude, but this is more because I didn't want to see them in the search results, not because they were hurting tracker. We could have something added in the release notes about advanced tracker configuration - that would certainly help. I don't know if the default install will include tracker-prefs, the "search settings" is sort of enough for normal end users. Gnome is moving towards tracker quite a bit - photos/music/documents all use tracker so any issue should be filed upstream and fixed. I don't know how we could pressure upstream as you put it, but I do file all the bugs that I run into. -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
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