Re: New module proposal: tracker

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 19:11 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 17:57 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 18:53 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 09:28 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Surely apps should ship pre-indexed help files? Or at least do the
> > > > > indexing at install time when installing from tarballs.
> > > > 
> > > > All right.  Is there a suitable open format for that?  
> > > 
> > > Yes, the format for pre-installed content is Turtle. You have a command-
> > > line tool and a DBus API to instruct tracker-store to import such a
> > > Turtle file.
> > > 
> > > You can for example in the postinst of a package do this.
> > 
> > There's a tracker-store listening system-wide?
> 
> Hmm, that's a good point. 
> 
> I guess you'll have to iterate over all users and foreach
> 
>  su $user -c tracker-sparql -q -u $qry
> 
> I understand that this is not nice :(. But indeed, tracker-store isn't
> system-wide, instead it's per user.

That won't work because you won't have access to the session D-Bus, and
certainly wouldn't work with, say, 1k users with NFS home dirs.