[GRLUG] gnome tracker issue

Wed Oct 3 18:14:32 EDT 2012

On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 18:03 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> It seems from some stuff on line that in fact tracker does not
> index .php files.

They at least make it into the index.  It indexes other types of code
files.

awilliam at linux-nysu:~> tracker-search jsonRPCClient
Results:
  file:///home/awilliam/Documents/Development/PHP/jsonRPCClient.php
  file:///home/awilliam/Documents/Organizations/MI/OGo/CRM%20&%
20Hedera/TireSale/tiresale.py
file:///home/awilliam/Documents/Works/Coils.MD/snurtle-code/build/lib/snurtle/jsonrpc.py file:///home/awilliam/Documents/Works/Coils.MD/snurtle-code/build/lib/snurtle/rpcclient.py
...

>  Haven't found any explanation about why not. Did see a
> hint to use ack. This does nicely finding the phrase "php return button"
> in the php file. Does seem only to work on current working directory and
> down, however, so I can't search ~ and /var/www/html at the same time.

What have you set it to index?  I doubt it does /var/www/html by
default.

tracker-preferences -> Location tab

> On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 14:04 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > Strange. I created a short file, flame.html, with the word
> > 'flambolicious' in it. tracker-search did not come up with it, even
> > after a reboot. Yet if I save that file as flame.txt, tracker-search
> > does come up with it. And tracker is finding some .php and .html files.

Has the filesystem miner indexed that file yet?

awilliam at linux-nysu:~> tracker-info ProvisionRabbitMQ.txt
Querying information for entity:'ProvisionRabbitMQ.txt'
  'urn:uuid:913e87ba-85c6-dc00-949c-23a2f00dc81e'
Results:
  'http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/date' = '2012-09-25T13:59:41Z'
  'http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/source' =
'urn:nepomuk:datasource:9291a450-1d49-11de-8c30-0800200c9a66'
  'tracker:added' = '2012-09-25T13:59:44Z'
...