GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 735317
Tracker no longer honours my 'ignore files' put on the disks
Last modified: 2014-08-25 11:44:06 UTC
Somewhen in the dev cycle of tracker 1.1.x tracker forgot to listen to my configuration to ignore directories which I 'tag' as not indexed In tracker-preferences, Ignored content, I have an entry '.tracker-ignore' in the list of 'With specific files'; this used to be a reliable way to tell tracker to skip this directory (and subdirectories thereof). Now, this is obviously no longer correct: > a quick extract from tracker-search file:///home/dle1gis/Documents/git/appstream-glib/libappstream-glib/as-enums.h ...documentation * @AS_KUDO_KIND_APP_MENU Uses the GNOME application menu... file:///home/dle1gis/Documents/git/appstream-glib/libappstream-glib/as-environment-ids.txt ...desktop environments GNOME KDE LXDE... > and I still do have the file in place to ignore this directory dle1gis@linux:~/Documents/git> ls -la .tracker-ignore -rw-r--r-- 1 dle1gis users 0 Jul 28 23:49 .tracker-ignore dle1gis@linux:~/Documents/git> I consider this critical - as my tracker DB is now re-indexing everything; tracker-control sais it's 38% done and tracker's meta.db is already 1.5GB (and I know from the pas that this renders apps like gnome-music, gnome-documents and the like useless).
I will take a look Dominique, I actually was thinking of making this a standard - i.e. we will always honour this file even if not in the config.
commit c9096fd8774f3025d7adad3f97a2fafbfa0bbebb Author: Martyn Russell <martyn@lanedo.com> Date: Mon Aug 25 12:42:45 2014 +0100 libtracker-miner: Make sure we ignore directories with black listed content https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735317 This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.