tracker

[Gene Czarcinski]

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:

 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, 
*.wavand *.xcf*

Comments?

Gene
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