Re: [Tracker] Integratin Tracker and Apple Spotlight

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 06/29/2012 03:18 PM, Frank Lahm wrote:
> Hi everybody,

Hello,

> I'm working on a project of adding Spotlight [1] support to the
> Netatalk [2] OS implementation of an AFP [3] server. For that I was
> thinking of using Tracker as the metadata store.

Great!

> Most use cases will be indexing and searching shored storage spaces
> (volumes, shares) which are accessed by multiple users. Netatalk
> creates distinct UNIX processes for every user session on the server,
> running with the priviliges of the users UNIX account.
>
> Can someone please give me a hint if and now this can be done with
> Tracker? From what I've researched as of now (mostly checking the
> available Tracker query API), Tracker is built around the assumption
> of one Tracker instance per user. So I always just assumed that well,
> let that user be root and index whatever I configure.

That's one way, though I wouldn't advise using root for that sort of 
thing but a dedicated user instead (perhaps in teh same group)?

> Is that the way forward? Any other recommandation or pointer?

Yes, I think so. Though we don't have a concrete use case for you to 
follow, that's how I would approach it.

Good luck!

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.