Jamie McCracken wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 11:01 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: >> Jamie McCracken wrote: >>> As I will be working quite extensively on trunk post merge I require any >>> major changes to be done ASAP >>> >>> list of changes required prior to merge (in order of priority) - all of >>> these already exist and work in trunk: >>> >>> >>> 1) trackerd: Handle file moves - update files in a directory >>> recursively when a directory is renamed/moved (need to pause indexer >>> before updating - watch out!). Likewise re-enable update of index from >>> trackerd as its needed for tagging and other user metadata >> Hi, >> >> This is done in the indexer, the daemon, however, currently has no way >> of knowing about files linked by moves. Instead, GIO gives us DELETED >> and CREATED events. >> >> That is quite unacceptable I think. >> >> I have created a bug report about this: >> >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547890 >> >> We can in the mean time perhaps add some glue by checking the md5sum of >> the 2 files to see if they are the same and the events occur within the >> same 2 seconds perhaps? I would rather not do this. But it might be >> necessary for the time being. >> > > can we fork the gio monitor code and inline it into our source tree > then? > > when updated glib with that functionality is available we can swap it > out
Not really. The GIO code isn't the easiest code to fork. I think doing that would take longer than finding another, easier solution. I am investigating this. -- Regards, Martyn _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
