Re: [Tracker] [bug] when trackerd is not running, tracker's tools assume tracker is installed in /usr/local/bin/trackerd

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

since i'm not very good with the autotools stuff, I can't help out
with adding the support, but finding the dbus services directory is
easy:

pkg-config --variable=session_bus_services_dir dbus-1

Samuel Cormier-Iijima

On 9/17/06, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> Baptiste Mille-Mathias wrote:
> > On 9/17/06, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> >> this is not a bug.
> >>
> >> more likely you have compiled tracker without --prefix=/usr at some
> >> point in the past.
> >>
> > I had compiled tracker with --prefix=/home/baptiste/fake
> > --sysconfdir=/home/baptiste/fake/ ; the problem was I had also tracker
> > installed from the deb package, once the deb package removed I had
> > ** (process:6650): WARNING **: An error has occured : The name
> > org.freedesktop.Tracker was not provided by any .service files
> >
> > Is it possible to install tracker out of the /usr directory, because
> > is seems (following I understand) that dbus is unable to find the
> > tracker.service (located at
> > /home/baptiste/fake/share/dbus-1/services/tracker.service)
> >
>
> it is possible but then you must manually copy the service file to
> /usr/share/dbus-1/services (or wherever dbus is located) if you want
> dbus activation to work
>
> we cannot currently detect where dbus service directory is at build time
> so we always assume that the prefix for both it and tracker will be the
> same. (which is the case 99% of the time)
>
> (patch welcome if anyone knows how to detect dbus service directory)
>
> --
> Mr Jamie McCracken
> http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/
>
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