Hi all,
There was recent interest in following symlinks within Tracker:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726264
For those that don't know, Tracker uses GIO and in nearly every case the
G_FILE_QUERY_INFO_NOFOLLOW_SYMLINKS flag, documented here:
https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GFile.html#GFileQueryInfoFlags
The bug above talks about how disruptive this is for git-annex which
almost entirely uses symlinks to git objects/resources in .git/. We've
had this policy/code in Tracker for a LOOONG time, I think, to avoid
following files onto remote file systems or into public (e.g.
/usr/share) areas.
I knocked up a preliminary branch here:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/tracker/log/?h=follow-symlinks
Which removes these flags for testing, but I wanted to gauge usefulness
before taking this any further.
So:
1. Would a patch/branch like this be useful to anyone?
2. Would it make sense to make this a configuration option in the
miner-fs (defaulting to the current practise), that way, avoiding any
unexpected behaviour from what we have now?
Thoughts?
--
Regards,
Martyn
Founder & Director @ Lanedo GmbH.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/martynrussell
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