Hi Martyn, I'm ok with the patch. I don't think we need to make it configurable.
Kind regards, Philip On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 09:40 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote: > Hi all, > > There was recent interest in following symlinks within Tracker: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726264 > > For those that don't know, Tracker uses GIO and in nearly every case the > G_FILE_QUERY_INFO_NOFOLLOW_SYMLINKS flag, documented here: > > https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GFile.html#GFileQueryInfoFlags > > The bug above talks about how disruptive this is for git-annex which > almost entirely uses symlinks to git objects/resources in .git/. We've > had this policy/code in Tracker for a LOOONG time, I think, to avoid > following files onto remote file systems or into public (e.g. > /usr/share) areas. > > I knocked up a preliminary branch here: > > https://git.gnome.org/browse/tracker/log/?h=follow-symlinks > > Which removes these flags for testing, but I wanted to gauge usefulness > before taking this any further. > > So: > > 1. Would a patch/branch like this be useful to anyone? > > 2. Would it make sense to make this a configuration option in the > miner-fs (defaulting to the current practise), that way, avoiding any > unexpected behaviour from what we have now? > > Thoughts? > _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
