Re: [Tracker] PATCH: adding manpage metadata extraction

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 15:09 -0700, Michael Frank wrote:
> hi all-
>
> I came up with this first pass at metadata-extraction for manpages.
> Currently it adds the following keys:
>
> Doc:Title - the manpage name, i.e. ls, cat
>
> Doc:Subject - based on the formal descriptions of each section from the
> man(1) page, i.e. "Executable Programs", "Library Calls".  This part
> needs i18n love.
>
> Man:Section - this a custom key referring to the manpage section number
> (1-9, plus wierd ones like 3ssl and 3pm).  Is it legal/kosher to add my
> own key like that?
>
> Doc:Description - taken from the 'NAME' section of the manpage,
> specifically the text after the '-'.
>
> Running tracker-extract manually over various manpages seems to work.
> However, trackerd doesn't seem to be picking up the files.  Is there
> something i need to do in trackerd for it to index files of type
> text/troff?


this needs a bit more work

1) New metadata types need to be added as desktop files
2) text/troff needs to be registered as a document though I think having
a separate Help service might be better

I can look into doing this but its likely to be post 0.6

If you would like to work some mor eon this then let me know

thanks and sorry for the long delay in replying - just been so busy last
few months

jamie