Re: [Tracker] PATCH: Allow disabling all extractors

[Jonatan Pålsson <jonatan palsson pelagicore com>]

On 11 July 2013 12:56, Philip Van Hoof <philip codeminded be> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 13:35 +0200, Jonatan Pålsson wrote:
> > Hi list,
>
> Hi Jonatan,
Hi Philip,
> Ideally you prepare a branch without the Tracker-IVI specific commits.
> That way I don't have to skip them while rebasing your commits on top of
> master. That should be your task ;-), as I'm not a maintainer of the
> Tracker-IVI work.
>
> For example
> git checkout -b optional_extractors tracker-ivi/optional_extractors
> git branch optional_extractors_upstream
> git rebase -i optional_extractors
> #Comment out the Tracker-IVI specific commits' pick lines
> git push tracker-ivi optional_extractors_upstream
>
> And you publish (just) optional_extractors_upstream to us.

Ah, excellent. I will do this from now on, thanks for the instructions.

> I also recommend not using autogen.sh for your Tracker-IVI specific
> configure switches. You should use your package system's features for
> this purpose instead. Consider taking a look at Tracker's gitorious
> repository which hosts the branches and tags for MeeGo Harmattan's
> debian packaging and adaptations that are specific for the N9.
>
> Just do the exact same thing.

This is indeed much nicer. I will have a look at using the package
systems instead of autogen, thanks for the pointer!

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