[Tracker] Integratin Tracker and Apple Spotlight

[Frank Lahm <franklahm gmail com>]

Hi everybody,

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

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.

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

Thanks!
-f

[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(software)>
[2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netatalk>
[3] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Filing_Protocol>