[GRLUG] gnome tracker issue

[Adam Tauno Williams]

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-type="application/php"

That should cause a reindex of all files of the specified MIME type.

Assuming the MIME type pairing works, it should be available once the
miner becomes idle.