Re: [Tracker] tracker-search and tracker-search-tool options in 0.7.24

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

Hi Ken,

On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 16:06 -0500, Ken Schmedding wrote:
> I was attempting to do some searches with an OR operator and could not
> get it to work.  By my read of the of the documentation a command such
> as tracker-search -r foo bar I expected to find all hits with either
> search term. I tried many variations and the results confused me. Here
> is an example of my data set and the results:
> foo (should be 11 incidences)
> bar (should be 46 incidences)
> foo AND bar (should be 3 incidences)
> foo OR bar (should be 54 incidences)
>
> tracker-search foo bar             yields 3 hits (correct for an AND)
> tracker-search -r foo bar          yields 3 hits
> tracker-search -r bar || foo        yields 46 hits
> tracker-search -r foo || bar        yields  11 hits
>
> I tried many combinations including the --or-operator, brackets and
> such and simply could not get an OR operation to work.  Same goes for
> the GUI tracker-search-tool.  Am I missing something?

There was a bug that caused the OR operator to be ignored in the query.
This is now fixed in master. The command

    tracker-search -r foo bar

should now work as expected.

JÃrg