-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 27/09/11 14:52, Jürg Billeter wrote: > On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 12:37 +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote: >> On 27/09/11 12:07, Martyn Russell wrote: >>> The crawling stage can take some time depending on what >>> locations you index and how many directories you have there. >> >> What is "some time"? I have started tracker thias morning, and it >> is still crawling recursively "/" (I know, it is not recommended, >> but it should not cause any problems, I guess. > > It makes no sense at all trying to index directories such as /dev, > /proc, and /sys (and more).
Agreed - exactly for this reason, I exclude the following directories from indexing: /root /dev /var /sys /tmp /proc > I don't consider it worthwhile debugging anything like this. Kernel > filesystems may have slightly different behavior and you really > don't want to index files such as /proc/self/mem. The reason why I am keen on indexing / as well is documentation.There are several programs which install documentation in pdf and html format, which I want to have included in the index. In addition, indexing config files makes it easier to find certain configuration files, even if the actual name is not known. The same applies for documentation in man format. To use a central indexing tool which gives me all documentation based on a certain search, let them be in /local or /home, makes much more sense for me then having to search in man, tracker, locate and others to get this information. Effectively, not being able to index / (with exclusion of the above mentioned directories) makes an indexing service for me much less useful. > > I suggest you to fix your configuration and try again. If you really think that / should not be indexed, then I would *strongly* suggest to make it impossible to add / to the to be indexed directories. To reiterate - I really like tracker so far, but I think not to be able to add / to the directories to be indexed, will criple its usability (at least for me). Cheers, Rainer > > Regards, Jürg > - -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6BydgACgkQoYgNqgF2egpcIgCeKc15cPrqI7DVRL5lqrI+aFiW FhIAn1ddu8ETvENUCJ4wLofVnei2VwJd =9Xo/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
