Re: [Tracker] tracker-store man page description needs minor cleanup

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 21/03/14 12:53, Michael Biebl wrote:
> See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=675198
>
> The man page for tracker-store reads:
>      "...instead other processes do that and serves as a daemon
>      waiting  for  such requests..."
>
> This is a bit odd.
> The bug submitter suggests to use
>      "...instead other processes do that while tracker-store serves
>      as a daemon waiting  for  such requests..."
>
> So the full sentence is:
>
>     tracker-store does not do any file crawling or any mining of  data
> itself,  instead
>     other processes do that while tracker-store serves as a daemon
> waiting for such
>     requests from application miners like tracker-miner-fs.
>
>
> This is syntactically a bit better I think, it still sounds incorrect
> though. tracker-store isn't really waiting on requests from
> tracker-miner-fs, is it?

Yes. It is really.

Without applications or tracker-miner-fs (or data miners in general), 
tracker-store just creates and maintains the sanity of the DB and that's it.

It mainly acts as gateway and data serialiser to the DB for multiple 
potential clients performing SQL updates (and queries).

> Could we rephrase that sentence a bit to make the architecture a bit clearer.

Actually, I think the suggested full sentence makes a lot of sense and 
is accurate.

If you run /usr/libexec/tracker-store -v 3 you can see it just sits 
there after running the initial checks and without clients, it's quite 
redundant.

Michael, feel free to commit a patch with the above sentence. If you 
have another suggestion, I am happy to discuss it.

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Regards,
Martyn

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