Re: [Tracker] Enhancement proposal: Automatic reindexing when adding new extractors

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 10:17 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2010/2/9 Adrien Bustany <madcat mymadcat com>:

[CUT]

> I think, in general the idea is good, I have some concerns though.
> Using the mtime, might have some undesired side effects.
> E.g. a user upgrades his tracker installation say from 0.7.18 to
> 0.7.19 (by either using make install or the distro package management
> tools)
> The mtime of the desktop files will change then. Do we really want to
> reindex everything in that case? I don't think so.

nod

> Maybe, a more robust solution is to use hashsums for the desktop files
> and a version counter.
> [Extractor]
> Name=Foobar extractor
> MimeTypes=application/fooba
> Version=1

I agree with this

> Using a hashsum will ensure that we don't get spurious reindex
> whenever the package is upgraded.
> Consider now, that the author of the Foobar extractor has
> significantly improved its extractor, and he want's to enforce a
> reindex.
> He'd then bump the Version counter and the hashsum would change.
>
> Hope this makes sense. Thoughts?

Makes sense to me


Cheers,


Philip

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