Package is absent from F27. How to turn off tracker now?
Tracker miners running like mad as one of the first things when demonstrating a fresh install of Fedora to someone, is really bad.
- maybe a hardcore way- in F26 I do: - in rc.local: /usr/bin/chmod -x /usr/libexec/tracker*; - rm -rf /usr/share/dbus-1/services/*Track*; - reboot
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:41 AM, Michael Schwendt mschwendt@gmail.com wrote:
Package is absent from F27. How to turn off tracker now?
Tracker miners running like mad as one of the first things when demonstrating a fresh install of Fedora to someone, is really bad.
Tracker seems to be configured in dconf in /org/freedesktop/tracker . You can use dconf-editor to configure that. Or use gsettings:
$ gsettings list-recursively | grep -i org.freedesktop.Tracker
Does anyone know why tracker-preferences package was removed? I can't find it in src.fedoraproject.org nor I can find any email about it. That package is honestly essential. Tracker sooner or later gets stuck in a loop on about every system I work with.
On Wed, 2017-10-04 at 15:01 +0200, Kamil Paral wrote:
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:41 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@gmail.c om> wrote:
Package is absent from F27. How to turn off tracker now?
Tracker miners running like mad as one of the first things when demonstrating a fresh install of Fedora to someone, is really bad.
Tracker seems to be configured in dconf in /org/freedesktop/tracker . You can use dconf-editor to configure that. Or use gsettings:
$ gsettings list-recursively | grep -i org.freedesktop.Tracker
Does anyone know why tracker-preferences package was removed? I can't find it in src.fedoraproject.org nor I can find any email about it. That package is honestly essential. Tracker sooner or later gets stuck in a loop on about every system I work with.
Upstream decision. From the release notes of 1.99.0 - 2017-07-06: " * Deleted tracker-preferences. Tracker has been using GSettings for years, so doesn't specifically require an UI for it, there's of course room for desktop integrated configuration, gnome-control-center does this for example. "
-Yanko
On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Yanko Kaneti yaneti@declera.com wrote:
Upstream decision. From the release notes of 1.99.0 - 2017-07-06: " * Deleted tracker-preferences. Tracker has been using GSettings for years, so doesn't specifically require an UI for it, there's of course room for desktop integrated configuration, gnome-control-center does this for example. "
Sigh. Thank you.
On Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:14:22 +0300, Yanko Kaneti wrote:
$ gsettings list-recursively | grep -i org.freedesktop.Tracker
While digging, I've come that far, too. Can't say I'm happy, because tracker-preferences at least made it quick and convenient to remove the index directories.
$ gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-recursive-directories [] $ gsettings get org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-recursive-directories @as [] ^^^ ^ ^ Ouch! It's using GVariant format strings.
Does anyone know why tracker-preferences package was removed? I can't find it in src.fedoraproject.org nor I can find any email about it. That package is honestly essential. Tracker sooner or later gets stuck in a loop on about every system I work with.
Upstream decision. From the release notes of 1.99.0 - 2017-07-06: " * Deleted tracker-preferences. Tracker has been using GSettings for years, so doesn't specifically require an UI for it, there's of course room for desktop integrated configuration, gnome-control-center does this for example. "
Big *sigh*. What a poor decision. So much about making desktop user friendly. It's not even possible to uninstall it because of dependency hell and libs usage:
# rpm -e tracker-miners error: Failed dependencies: tracker-miners is needed by (installed) gnome-documents-3.26.0-2.fc27.x86_64 tracker-miners(x86-64) is needed by (installed) tracker-2.0.0-2.fc27.x86_64
# rpm -e tracker-miners gnome-documents tracker error: Failed dependencies: libtracker-control-2.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) gnome-documents-libs-3.26.0-2.fc27.x86_64 libtracker-miner-2.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) gnome-online-miners-3.26.0-1.fc27.x86_64 libtracker-sparql-2.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) grilo-plugins-0.3.5-2.fc27.x86_64 libtracker-sparql-2.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) gnome-online-miners-3.26.0-1.fc27.x86_64 libtracker-sparql-2.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) nautilus-3.26.0-1.fc27.x86_64 libtracker-sparql-2.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) gnome-boxes-3.26.0-1.fc27.x86_64 libtracker-sparql-2.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) gnome-documents-libs-3.26.0-2.fc27.x86_64
On Thu, 2017-10-05 at 15:51 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:14:22 +0300, Yanko Kaneti wrote:
$ gsettings list-recursively | grep -i org.freedesktop.Tracker
While digging, I've come that far, too. Can't say I'm happy, because tracker-preferences at least made it quick and convenient to remove the index directories.
$ gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-recursive- directories [] $ gsettings get org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-recursive- directories @as [] ^^^ ^ ^ Ouch! It's using GVariant format strings.
Why is that a problem?
Does anyone know why tracker-preferences package was removed? I can't find it in src.fedoraproject.org nor I can find any email about it. That package is honestly essential. Tracker sooner or later gets stuck in a loop on about every system I work with.
Upstream decision. From the release notes of 1.99.0 - 2017-07-06: " * Deleted tracker-preferences. Tracker has been using GSettings for years, so doesn't specifically require an UI for it, there's of course room for desktop integrated configuration, gnome-control-center does this for example. "
Big *sigh*. What a poor decision. So much about making desktop user friendly. It's not even possible to uninstall it because of dependency hell and libs usage:
Feel free to maintain it if you prefer it over the configuration that is available via control-center or gsettings.
On Fri, 06 Oct 2017 11:03:54 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
$ gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-recursive- directories [] $ gsettings get org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-recursive- directories @as [] ^^^ ^ ^ Ouch! It's using GVariant format strings.
Why is that a problem?
Whether it's "a problem", remains to be seen. It's ugly and not human-readable. Serialization is for machines, not for human beings.
Big *sigh*. What a poor decision. So much about making desktop user friendly. It's not even possible to uninstall it because of dependency hell and libs usage:
Feel free to maintain it if you prefer it over the configuration that is available via control-center or gsettings.
Toggling various Search options in control center did _not_ stop the four tracker processes and did _not_ purge large files and databases from user's home directory either. Not good.
On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 22:02 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Fri, 06 Oct 2017 11:03:54 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
$ gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index- recursive- directories [] $ gsettings get org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index- recursive- directories @as [] ^^^ ^ ^ Ouch! It's using GVariant format strings.
Why is that a problem?
Whether it's "a problem", remains to be seen. It's ugly and not human-readable. Serialization is for machines, not for human beings.
Fwiw, it only displays the type annotation when it is necessary to avoid ambiguity. If the array is not empty, it does not show up.
Toggling various Search options in control center did _not_ stop the four tracker processes and did _not_ purge large files and databases from user's home directory either. Not good.
Thats not what the options are about. Did the labelling in the control- center give you the impression that that is what would happen ?
On Mon, 09 Oct 2017 10:27:10 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
Toggling various Search options in control center did _not_ stop the four tracker processes and did _not_ purge large files and databases from user's home directory either. Not good.
Thats not what the options are about. Did the labelling in the control- center give you the impression that that is what would happen ?
I had hoped for a new UI to be smart and capable enough to do what I've pointed out above. The tracker-preferences tool offered an option to prune the tracker cache files.
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