Re: [Tracker] runtime checking for tracker availability

["Samuel Cormier-Iijima" <sciyoshi gmail com>]

Doesn't D-Bus have a method to find out if a service is startable?
Sorry can't check right now though...

Samuel Cormier-Iijima

On 10/30/06, Ulrik Mikaelsson <ulrik mikaelsson gmail com> wrote:
> One option would be to try to use the pkg-config infrastructure. I think
> this is what it's supposed to do. That'll probably require additions to
> tracker, and in worst case an extra dependency, though.
>
> Otherwise, $PATH is probably your best bet.
>
> What exactly do you want to do once you know if it's installed? Launch it?
> Would it be possible to let tracker-installation and packaging configure
> dbus to launch it on it's first message? Don't know DBUS enough to know if
> this is possible for the session bus.
>
>
> On 10/30/06, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel kamstrup gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > 2006/10/30, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:
> >
> > > Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> > > > 2006/10/20, Edward Duffy <eduffy gmail com <mailto:
> eduffy gmail com>>:
> > > >
> > > >     Until dbus 0.9+ makes into most distros, you can check the lock
> file
> > > >
> > > >     # lsof ~/.Tracker/${USER}_tracker_lock
> > > >
> > > >     this'll return 0 if trackerd is running by ${USER}, 1 otherwise.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Oh, perhaps I was unclear. I need to check if tracker is _installed_
> (I
> > > > could check for existence of ~/.Tracker but that dir only exists if
> > > > trackerd has been run). I can check if trackerd is _running_ by
> > > > dbus.NameHasOwner("org.freedesktop.Tracker"). I could manually scan
> the
> > > > $PATH for trackerd but that seems unelegant...
> > > >
> > >
> > > you could check for usr/share/tracker (or usr/local/share/tracker)
> >
> >
> > That would work on 98% of all systems, but I would really like a
> completely generic test...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mikkel
> >
> >
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