[GRLUG] gnome tracker issue

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 08:25 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 07:57 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 05:31 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 20:31 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > > The root the of the issue here is that there is no extractor for PHP
> > > file types;  in Tracker an extractor exists for each file types and
> > > extracts the information from the file [ODT, DOCX, PDF, TXT, etc...] to
> > > be added to the index.  Extractors correspond to MIME types and the MIME
> > > type of a PHP file is, for some queer historical reason,
> > > "application/x-php".   Whereas Python files have a MIME type of
> > > "text/x-python" so if there isn't an extractor for "text/x-python" it
> > > falls back to extracting with "text/*".  Most code files are treated as
> > > text files: "text/x-c", "text/x-c++", "text/x-java", "text/js", etc...
> > > But PHP is "application/*" for which there is, obviously, not default
> > > extractor.
> > > PHP developers, typically, being lower-case-d developers probably aren't
> > > going to write an extractor [which would be done in C].
> > > You can try telling Tracker's text extractor that it can extract PHP
> > > files by editing /usr/share/tracker/extract-rules/90-text-generic.rule
> > > and changing the Mimetypes directive from "text/*" to
> > > "text/*;application.php;".  And then restarting tracker - logging in and
> > > out would probably do that.  Then just touch the PHP files, when the
> > > tracker miner becomes idle again [tracker-control] check one of the PHP
> > > files using tracker-info.
> > I'm giving that a try.
> > Should "text/*;application.php;" be "text/*;application/x-php"?
> >  Do I have to 'touch' all the .php files to get them to be indexed? Can
> > I do that with a wildcard ("touch *php")?
> 
>  tracker-control --reindex-mime-yype="application/php"

My bad.  The MIME type should be application/x-php.

cat /usr/share/tracker/extract-rules/90-text-generic.rule
[ExtractorRule]
ModulePath=/usr/lib64/tracker-0.14/extract-modules/libextract-text.so
MimeTypes=text/*;application/x-php;

tracker-control --reindex-mime-yype="application/x-php"

It is working for me now, at least I'm seeing PHP files in the search
results.