On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Martyn Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Martyn Russell <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> That problem that Biebl once pointed out still occurs, did anyone >>>> notice... >>> >>> WORKSFORME. >>> >>> What does tracker-status say? >>> What tells you that it didn't finish? >> >> After initial indexing run, the indexer and daemon tell me that >> indexing is finito and when I restart I find that more items are >> indexed. I index the whole /usr and /home by the way. Maybe your test >> dataset is far smaller. > > OK. Tracker does crawl everything and check all content is up-to-date in the > database *every time* it is started. If we didn't do this, between restarts > some file could change and we wouldn't have an up-to-date database. Perhaps > the terminology and communication could be better here. We don't actually > "index" everything the consequent times, but rather "check" it is there and > up to date. The applet could be improved here I suppose. Perhaps if we are > not initially indexing, we should say "Checking" or something. But basically > there is little difference between indexing and checking. Both require some > database interaction. One does a database lookup the other inserts and > extracts metadata. The indexer and daemon don't change states depending on > if they are looking up a file in the database (for up-to-dateness) or > indexing it because it is new. Changing state for that would be quite > pointless because it *could* switch for every other file then. > > We know if we are on an initial index. Perhaps we just need to change the > text on subsequent cases to "Verifying" or "Checking"?
You explain what I already know/understand, and I really don't have any problem with the terminology. Let me try explain: 1. initial indexing gets me 20 items 2. restart the daemon 3. now i get 40 items (in my case, 40 is ~240,000) > No, it is *tongue in cheek* WORKSFORME - it is a Bugzilla resolution :) that's relieving :-) -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
