#543 Spotlight cannot search in user homes

[HAT]

Spotlight cannot search in user homes.
After executing the following commands, I succeeded in search from OS X.

$ su
# emacs .tracker_profile
# cat .tracker_profile
PREFIX="/usr/local"
export XDG_DATA_HOME="$PREFIX/var/netatalk/"
export XDG_CACHE_HOME="$PREFIX/var/netatalk/"
export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:path=$PREFIX/var/netatalk/spotlight.ipc"
# . .tracker_profile
# tracker-control -S
# tracker-control -t
# tracker-control -s
# tracker-control -f ~username
# tracker-info ~username

In case of user home, indexing looks imperfect.

General volume can be searched.

Env:
Ubuntu 13.10
Netatalk 3.1.0

[HAT]

It became impossible to search a user home, again!
The following logs are seen when searching.

Jan 10 20:45:29.948598 afpd[7749] {spotlight.c:554} (W:Spotlight): Closing active query
Jan 10 20:45:31.690789 afpd[7749] {spotlight.c:554} (W:Spotlight): Closing active query
Jan 10 20:45:32.438379 afpd[7749] {spotlight.c:554} (W:Spotlight): Closing active query
Jan 10 20:45:35.757947 afpd[7749] {spotlight.c:554} (W:Spotlight): Closing active query

I was able to search after reindexing.

# tracker-control -f ~hat

[HAT]

When netatalk(8) starts, it sets up paths for spotlight.
Since user has not logged in yet, nobody sets up home's path.

I wrote a workaround patch.

[Ralph Böhme]

The proposed patch doesn't cut it and needs more thinking. It only does a one time crawl and indexing, but doesn't configure Tracker to monitor paths for filesystem activity.

[HAT]

Since I do not understand the spec of Tracker, I cannot write a better patch.
Is it difficult?

[Ralph Böhme]

For someone very familiar with the Netatalk code and Tracker possibly half a day or more for getting in right, it might even not be doable at all in a sensible way that works across all use cases, not sure.

[HAT]

I cannot understand what is a problem.
I have always succeeded in search.
Immediately after creating a text file on server, I can discover it from client.
Tracker seems to always watch my home directory.

[HAT]

workaround patch for netatalk 3.1.4

[HAT]

workaround patch for netatalk 3.1.5

[JM]

I guess the but still exists in netatalk 3.1.7?

[HAT]

My patch wouldn't be adopted forever.
https://github.com/Netatalk/Netatalk/pull/7