Re: [Tracker] more issues with indexer-split

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

Jamie McCracken wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 11:01 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > > As I will be working quite extensively on trunk post merge I require any
> > > major changes to be done ASAP
> > >
> > > list of changes required prior to merge (in order of priority) - all of
> > > these already exist and work in trunk:
> > >
> > >
> > > 1) ïtrackerd: Handle file moves - update files in a directory
> > > recursively when a directory is renamed/moved (need to pause indexer
> > > before updating - watch out!). Likewise re-enable update of index from
> > > trackerd as its needed for tagging and other user metadata
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is done in the indexer, the daemon, however, currently has no way
> > of knowing about files linked by moves. Instead, GIO gives us DELETED
> > and CREATED events.
> >
> > That is quite unacceptable I think.
> >
> > I have created a bug report about this:
> >
> >   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547890
> >
> > We can in the mean time perhaps add some glue by checking the md5sum of
> > the 2 files to see if they are the same and the events occur within the
> > same 2 seconds perhaps? I would rather not do this. But it might be
> > necessary for the time being.
>
> can we fork the gio monitor code and inline it into our source tree
> then?
>
> when updated glib with that functionality is available we can swap it
> out

Not really.

The GIO code isn't the easiest code to fork. I think doing that would
take longer than finding another, easier solution.

I am investigating this.

-- 
Regards,
Martyn