Re: [Tracker] Tracker testing environment

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 13/03/12 16:36, Sam Thursfield wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Martyn Russell<martyn lanedo com>  wrote:
> > On 12/03/12 16:59, Ivan Frade wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >   I usually work installing on /usr but your sandbox script is a great
> > > idea.
> > >
> > >   A couple of comments on the script:
> > >
> > > * I think it should also set the TRACKER_ONTOLOGIES_DIR variable
> > > * It should also report if the test directory exists (to know if
> > > tracker is writing a new DB or reusing some old version)
> >
> >
> > This is a really good point. Checking the man pages for env vars you can use
> > for each binary (like tracker-store) would give you some idea of relocatable
> > paths.
>
> Thanks for the input!
>
> I've implemented some of these fixes and ideas:
> * parallel instances of tracker-sandbox will share a dbus instance,
> rather than each having their own

Cool. You should be aware, using a new DBus session in a sandbox will 
also break apps if they use other DBus services (which is often the 
case), so be aware of that.

> * dconf uses the trackertest profile when running as the same user,
> and when running as a dummy user we spoof an XDG_RUNTIME_DIR so that
> it can run

Also, there is a TRACKER_USE_CONFIG_FILES env var which you can use for 
the old school .cfg files in XDG ~/.config/tracker locations.

> * set TRACKER_DB_ONTOLOGIES_DIR and TRACKER_LANGUAGE_STOPWORDS_DIR (it
> seems to me that since XDG_DATA_DIRS is set, we shouldn't need to do
> the specific TRACKER_ variables as well ... but it does no harm)
> * note when /tmp/tracker-test already exists
>
> Remaining issues
> * need to test on Ubuntu (not sure if XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is implemented there yet)

Oh that's new to me too.

> * exiting the first instance kills the session even if other instances
> are still active, but implementing some sort of atomic refcounting in
> shell is not an exercise i'm about to do for fun :)

:D

> New version at: http://afuera.me.uk/junk/tracker-sandbox

Nice.

> I'll write a bit on the wiki about it later this week, and commit it
> to git if you think that's ok (into utils/ I guess?)

Yea, utils/ make sense.

Thanks for the hard work here ;)

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.