[Tracker] Independent Tracker (developer question)

["Renhart Gittens" <renhart gittens ouls ox ac uk>]

Hi,

I would like to know how feasible it would be compile tracker and its
components such that it is self-contained and does not necessarily
spread itself throughout the operating system and is independent. I am
interested in the possibility of deploying it on machines which contain
archival material which we want to index. 

When I use the term deploy I don't mean install. I just want to be able
to run it from for example a remote machine (which can see the data) or
USB stick.

My development machine runs openSuse 10.2 (KDE )on which I've
successfully compiled tracker 0.6.1 (after much devel library loading).
My archival machines both run Suse 10.0 at present and the archival data
sits on NAS disks. 

I don't want to compile tracker on the archival machines as it requires
development libraries etc which would basically pollute the machines
and make the long-term preservation activity even more complex. 

It is not yet clear to me what runtime libraries tracker requires to be
present to execute. I've set the prefix to /opt/tracker but I'd already
installed all the libraries to get it to compile. 

I must admit I'm not very familiar with the GNU build environment and
the Gnome/KDE issues which impact tools such as tracker and strigi.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Renhart
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Renhart Gittens
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