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Well, I am sure it is not a show stopper but tracker is going to be
a royal PITA for some users.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1148570">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1148570</a> and here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735406">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735406</a><br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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:<br>
<ol>
<li>Add something to the release notes warning of the situation.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>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.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>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?<br>
</li>
</ol>
In the end, I had to add the following Glob patterns to ignore: <br>
<b><big><tt> *.au,</tt><tt> *.azw, *.mobi, *.mov, *.MOV, </tt><tt>*.mp3,
*.MP3, *.mpg, *.tif, *.wav</tt><tt> and *.xcf</tt></big></b><br>
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Comments?<br>
<br>
Gene<br>
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