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Bug 454068 - Tracker version 0.5.4 ignores his configuration file
Tracker version 0.5.4 ignores his configuration file
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: tracker
Classification: Core
Component: General
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Jamie McCracken
Jamie McCracken
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-07-05 20:00 UTC by Marc Devries
Modified: 2007-09-07 12:06 UTC
See Also:
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Description Marc Devries 2007-07-05 20:00:59 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
the settings in ~/.Tracker/tracker.cfg are not taken into account.
my settings are (part of)
WatchDirectoryRoots=/home/marc/MyStuff;
NoWatchDirectory=/home/marc/bin;/home/marc/temp;



Steps to reproduce:
1. write tracker.cfg as described above
2. start trackerd
3. 


Actual results:
Tracker starts indexing the whole home directory instead of the specified WatchDirectoryRoots, and does not ignore the NoWatchDirectory

Expected results:
I'd expect that he indexes only WatchDirectoryRoots, and ignores NoWatchDirectory

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information:
Comment 1 Marc Devries 2007-07-05 20:02:09 UTC 
Nice program guys, keep up the excellent work ;) THANK YOU !!!
Comment 2 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe 2007-07-06 06:31:30 UTC 
Could you stop trackerd, delete .Tracker/databases ?, and restart it again.
Comment 3 Marc Devries 2007-07-06 09:10:33 UTC 
I stopped trackerd, deleted .Tracker/databases, and started trackerd again. Same result.

Four your info I include full text of tracker.cfg

#WatchDirectoryRoots=/path/to/directory_1;/path/to/directory_2
WatchDirectoryRoots=/home/marc/MyStuff;


#NoWatchDirectory=/home/marc/bin;/home/marc/books;/home/marc/Documents;/home/marc/downloads;/home/marc/LinuxDoc;/home/marc/mp3;/home/marc/PDF;/home/marc/scratch;/home/marc/temp;

Cheers,
Comment 4 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe 2007-07-06 12:28:04 UTC 
Pretty strange, but you may try out svn version if you want, and I wonder why you commented out NoWatchDirectory:

* install subversion
* svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/tracker/trunk tracker
* cd tracker
* ./autogen.sh
* ...
Comment 5 Jamie McCracken 2007-09-07 12:06:34 UTC 
cant replicate on 0.6.2 so closing

if problem persists in latest version then pls reopen