Re: [Tracker] Disable indexing a subtree with tracker?

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 11/06/13 23:42, Brandon Philips wrote:
> Hello-
>
> I am working on an SDK that creates Linux disk images. As part of the
> build process it creates and mounts various loopback devices.
>
> It seems tracker sometimes inspects these mount points and causes
> unmounts to fail. Instead of telling every user of my SDK to disable
> indexing of new attached volumes via Tracker preferences can I place a
> file somewhere to disable indexing the entire subtree of my SDK?
>
> For example:
>
> echo "*" > $SDK_ROOT/.trackerignore

Hello,

Yes, there are 3 ways to do this:

1. Disable mounting volumes, which you suggested you don't want to do.

   $ gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files 
index-removable-devices false

2. Add a root directory to the list of ignored locations:

   $ gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files 
ignored-directories "['/tmp', 'core-dumps', 'CVS', 'lost+found', 'po']"

   NOTE: where /tmp is $SDK_ROOT.

3. Ignore directories with set content :) which is your example:

   $ gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files 
ignored-directories-with-content "['.trackerignore']"

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You can see all the settings on the command line using:

   $ gsettings list-recursively |grep -i tracker

Happy to help,

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.