[Tracker] Fwd: Question about running tracker.

["Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang gmail com>]

Why did I send this only to Don?

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From: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang gmail com>
Date: Mar 15, 2007 5:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Tracker] Question about running tracker.
To: don rozenberg gmail com


On 3/15/07, Don Rozenberg <rozen mcn org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just download 0.5.4 source and build and installed it in /usr/local.
> I am running Kubuntu 6.06 and I have a couple of questions.
>
> 1.  It seems to configure giving the following result:
>
> Tracker-0.5.4:
>
>         prefix:                                 /usr/local
>         source code location:                   .
>         compiler:                               gcc
>         enable gcc warnings:                    yes
>         build with debug symbols:               no
>         database engine:                        SQLite
>         file monitor backend to be used:        inotify
>         inotify header location:                linux/inotify.h
>         ioprio support:                         no
>         build search tool (GNOME):              no
>
> Metadata extractors:
>
>         pdf:                                    yes
>         png:                                    yes
>         exif (jpeg):                            yes
>         gsf:                                    yes
>         video files:                            ? (An external video
> player will be called)
>
> How do I get it to build the search tool?  There are "missing" messages
> from configure relevant to GNOME or the GUI.  In fact it builds the
> makefile for tracker-search-tool but make never goes there.

Install GNOME -dev packages which should be quite a number (maybe
there's a metapackage for for your OS).

else:
* add 'deb-src http://debs.michaelbiebl.de/ dapper main' to your
/etc/apt/sources.list,
* run 'sudo apt-get update',
* run 'sudo apt-get build-dep tracker-search-tool' which should pull
in the build dependencies to get TST to build
* check out the README file before rebuilding that Tracker of things;
http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/start.html might be of use too

> 2. I have the bulk of my personal files in a separate partition
> "/usr-files/rozen" and in my home directory "/home/rozen" I have
> symbolic links to various directories in "/usr-files/rozen"
> Apparently,  tracker does not follow symbolic links; it doesn't seem to
> index any of those files.

?

> I went into ~/.Tracker/tracker/cfg and added ";/usr-files/rozen, but
> nothing seemed to happen when I saved the file.  I then used kill to
> terminate trackerd and restarted it.  But it still does appear to do
> anything different.  How can I get those additional files indexed?  Is
> there a command to get tracker to restart with the new config? The line
> in th config file is:
>
> WatchDirectoryRoots=/home/rozen;/usr-files/rozen

Are you sure you killed it as in kill -9?