tracker

[Ankur Sinha]

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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